ABSTRACT
The Malay States which are under British control, apart from the representatives of the many races and peoples which have flocked into them—chiefly during the last thirty years or so—in connexion, directly or indirectly, with the development of the tin-mining industry and of rubber-planting, are occupied by the native Mohamedan Malays and the pagan tribes, the latter being found chiefly in the more inaccessible parts of the country. The ancestors of the Malays, when the war arose, ran away down-stream carrying a rice-spoon with them, and that is why the Malays use a spoon in cooking their rice. Except where the Negritos have been much in contact with Malays and have given their children Malay names, it is usual to name a child from the kind of tree under which it was born, from the nearest stream or river, or from the place at which the party was encamped when the birth occurred.
