ABSTRACT
T he Malay, who, anyway, has a pretty good conceit of himself, naturally looks down, from the height of his superior culture and from his certainty of his religious election as a Mohammedan, upon the rude and uncivilized unbelievers of the jungle and, as a rule, would not even allow one of such to enter his house. At best his attitude is that of somewhat amused contempt, and it is not uncommon to hear a Malay assert, coram populo and with Negritos present, that the jungle-dwellers are nothing but animals, as, he states, is self-evident from their behaviour and manner of living. Naturally such remarks, vouchsafed quite gratuitously, and heard by the Negritos, do not increase these little people’s regard for their erstwhile oppressors, for, if we are to believe Clifford, 1 the Malays used not infrequently in the old days to hunt down the Negritos, enslaving such of those that they caught as they considered desirable, and killing the others.
