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  • Tribes in the Malay Peninsula, such as the Jakun or the Semang, speak of a “Fruit Island” where dead souls end up.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Tribes in the Malay Peninsula, such as the Jakun or the Semang, speak of a “Fruit Island” where dead souls end up.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Tribes in the Malay Peninsula, such as the Jakun or the Semang, speak of a “Fruit Island” where dead souls end up.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • In poetry collections, William Blake's "Tyger" sits beside the tiger poem of the Jakun people of Malaysia.

    It's A Not So Small World 2008

  • There his followers married Jakun women, and their descendants spread over Sungei Ujong, Rumbow, and other parts, the Rayet Laut, or “sea-people,” the supposed

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Another common practice in the States, more especially in Perak, is to capture, as you might wild beasts, the unoffending Jakun women, and make them and their children slaves through generations.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • In Perak it has been the custom to hunt and capture the Jakun women and make them and their children slaves.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • [42] According to a Jakun legend, the first children were produced out of the calves of their mothers 'legs.

    A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore Fay-Cooper Cole 1921

  • And yet, in the face of what would seem to be the obvious and natural supposition that the Sakay is a half-breed of the Semang and Jakun, our authors, following Professor Rudolf Martin (Die Inlandstämme der malayischen Halbinsel), discover in the Sakay a distinct race of wholly different origin from the Semang and Jakun -- but allied to the Veddahs of Ceylon!

    The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

  • There, as in the Philippines, we have a wavy-haired people (the Sakay) located in between, and obviously mingling with, the Negrito ( "Semang") on the north and the primitive ( "Jakun")

    The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

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