--Maternity and its excesses--Aged before the
time--Fashion and coquetry " 125

Chapter XI: A Sakai village--The "elder"--The family--
Degrees of relationship--Humorists disoccupied--On
the march--Tender hearts--Kindling the fire--A
hecatomb of giants--The hut--Household goods and
utensils--Work and repose " 141

Chapter XII: Intellectual development--Sakais of the
plain and Sakais of the hills--Laziness and
intelligence--Falsehood and the Evil Spirit--
The Sakai language--When the "Orang Putei" gets
angry--Counting time--Novel calendars--Moral gifts " 152

Chapter XIII: First attempts at industry--The story of
a hat--Multiplicity--Primitive arts--Sakai music--
Songs--Instruments--Dances--Ball dresses--Serpentine
gracefulness--An unpublished Sakai song " 172

Chapter XIV: 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 Ala priest and physician--A scientific
vigil--Venerable imposture!-_Tenac_ and _Cintok_--
Therapeutic torture--Contagion--A Sakai's
death--The deserted village--Mourning--Births--
Fire--Intellectual darkness--The Sakais and
Islamism " 183

Chapter XV: Sakai arms--Shooting--Serpent
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 _loo_--The
_legop_--The Mai Bretaks--The preparation of
_legop_--Curious and superfluous ingredients--The
effects of _legop_--Strange contradictions--
Experiments--Poisons and antidotes--The settler
and science " 202

Chapter XVI: Past and future geography--Mountains
and plateaus--An attempt at a census--Temperature--
Maladies and remedies--_Ala_ a quack. " 221

AMONG THE SAKAIS

CHAPTER I.

Malacca and its contrasts--Devourers of the soul and devourers of
the body--The realization of a poet's dream--Temptations--A call
from the forest--Auri sacra fames--Baggage--Farewell to
civilization.

From the Bay of Bengal and the G