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BRIDE AND MAIDS BORNE IN STATE THROUGH STREETS OF PEKAN |
STURDY WIVES OF A PYGMY RACE |
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| Nowadays, the wishes of the Malay girls are generally consulted in the matter of matrimony. Society weddings are long, expensive affairs — a wedding-gift must always be money, but with the poorer classes the ceremonies are not nearly no numerous or costly. Like other Mahomedans, a Malay may have four wives at the same time, and, if he can afford it, he usually exercises his right | A wild, primitive race of Negritos, the Jakuns have been driven from pillar to post by the more masterful Malay. Their womenfolk now frequently intermarry with the Malays, and the Jakun population is slowly but surely dying out |