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Updated: May 4, 2025
The confession came too late because, if they had spoken in time the scoundrel would have had a much heavier sentence. From this simple episode one can understand what an amount of energy, boldness, and resolution the English Authorities need in order to liberate the poor Sakais from the moral tyranny that still oppresses them.
But the Sakais possess besides a wind instrument that claims more study both in the making and the playing. It belongs to the flute family and, of course, is made of bamboo. Like all its brothers in the world it is open at one end, with three or four holes on the top side.
But knowing something of the previous relations between the Sakais and the people surrounding them I was put on my guard against certain exaggerated and prejudiced reports and felt strongly tempted to try and dissipate the vague mystery that I somehow guessed was based upon self-interest in which they wished to envelop the Mai Darats.
The more they told me about them the more I felt attracted towards the Sakais, it seeming to me that a people so foreign to every light of civilization, so bold as they were described to be, so free from every regime or authority, must needs afford an interesting study to one who sought to know them at close quarters.
When the clouds begin to gather thick and ominously, and first with a distant roar and then with the fury and the voice of a hurricane, the wind sweeps fiercely on, howling and whistling over the great green sea that is quickly strewn with wreckage; when the colossal champions of the forest are struck by lightning and the fall of their huge branches and gigantic trunks increase the general uproar, whilst the boom of Heaven's artillery thunders around their huts, then the trembling Sakais throng together.
The Sakais are quite greedy over durians and Mr Wallace writes that its delicate flavour is so exquisite it would well repay the expense and disturbance of a journey Eastward on purpose to taste it. This assertion of the English writer may be somewhat exaggerated but for my own part, I must say that I have never tasted anything more delicious.
I examined the contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion! All at once, however, an unpleasant thought crossed my mind and dimmed my bright hopes. In my chats with the Sakais they had told me that there was another orang putei at Tapah.
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.
Another legend, sustained by the Kurumbus themselves, would make one suppose that the Sakais belong to that people, once grand, but now broken up and dispersed. In fact, even at the present time, there are many popular songs amongst the Malays in which the Kurumbus and Sakais are mixed up together. Dr.
Shunning-all contact with the other inhabitants of the country they had chosen as a refuge, they concealed themselves in the jungle, thus preserving their independence and the purity of their race. If this hypothesis holds good then the Sakais must be a very ancient people.
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