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Excerpt from An Account of the Wild Tribes: Inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra and a Few Neighbouring Islands
All these various wild tribes are ordi narily classed under the general and ex pressive appellation of obang binua 1, which signifies men of the soil; this will be the ex pression I will use when speaking of these tribes generally and without intending to refer to any one in particular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.