My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)

An official appointment--A tour of inspection--Lost in the forest--I find a philosopher--Lycurgus and his laws--A contented mind is a continual feast--A night among the tigers--...

Sakai arms--Shooting--Serpent catchers--The Sakai and his poisons--TOALANG, RENGAS AND SAGOL--SLA DOL, SLA PLEK and SLA CLOB--AKAR TOKA--Ipok[19]--An antidote--The LEGOP--The Na...

The beliefs and superstitions of the Sakais--Metempsychosis--The Evil Spirit--Superstition among savages and ignorance among civilized people--The two sources of life--The wind...

The origin of the Sakais--Hypothesis and legend--Physical character--Thick tresses, gay flowers and troublesome guests--Hereditary antipathy--The five senses reduced to two--Foo...

Intellectual development amongst the Sakais of the hills is very limited and as a consequence requires little or no study but much more is to be met with amongst those of the pl...

Great Mother Earth--A dangerous meeting--A living statue--Here or there?--An unrelished supper--A dreaded immigration--A glance into the past--A rape which was not a rape--A nob...

Something was said about its coasts and a scanty product of tin, antimony and coal but there was not a single word about the wide stretch of land far from the shores, partly une...

Woman, who has been compared to nearly every sort of animal that flies, creeps, swims or runs by poets and others of chivalrous sentiments, amongst the Sakais is simply a woman....

The great Sorceress--The forest seen from above--A struggle for life--The crimes of plants--Everlasting twilight--Births and deaths--Concerts by forest vocalists--The "durian"--...

A real village, such as we understand it to be, does not exist among the Sakais, but I have been obliged to make use of the word for want of a better one to explain the meaning....

My escort--By steamer to Telok Anson--The other bank of the Perak--Towards the forest--First news--Blood-letting in the swamp--Robbed and forsaken--Revenge in due time--The Mala...

They make blowpipes, arrows and quivers from bamboo, strings from twisted vegetable fibres, ear-rings and ornamental combs for the women. Now, under my direction, they have begu...

My strength and health, which had suffered in consequence of those few days' strain of muscle and nerve, soon returned to their normal state in that peaceful retreat upon the gr...

The young man who incautiously ventures into the mysterious parts of Drury Lane--where vice and crime have a classical reputation--or strolls through the old Latin Quarter of Pa...

Not having found even a trace of human habitation either on the second day of our march we were once more compelled to prepare a shelter for the night as best we could. We made...

From the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Siam the Malay Peninsula, once known as the Golden Chersonese, jets out into the Indian Ocean like an arm stretched forth to unite once mo...

of inspection--Lost in the forest--I find a philosopher--Lycurgus and his laws--A contented mind is a continual feast--A night among the tigers--On the Berumbum--I sleep with a...

Sakais--Metempsychosis--The Evil Spirit-- Superstition among savages and ignorance among civilized people--The two sources of life--The wind--The Ala priest and physician--A sci...

A living statue--Here or there?--An unrelished supper--A dreaded immigration--A glance into the past--A rape which was not a rape--A noble task--Towards the mountain--Tiger-shoo...

above--A struggle for life--The crimes of plants-- Everlasting twilight--Births and deaths--Concerts by forest vocalists--The "durian"--The "ple-lok"-- Vastnesses unexplored by...

and legend--Physical character--Thick tresses, gay flowers and troublesome guests--Hereditary antipathy--The five senses reduced to two-- Food and drink--Tranquil life--Intolera...

catchers--The Sakai and his poisons--_Toalang_, _rengas_ and _sagol_--_Sla dol_, _sla plek_ and _sla clob_--_Akar toka_--Ipok--An antidote-- The _labar_, _lampat_, _mase_ and _l...