Perak, on the west coast, south of Quedah, is 75 miles long. It is tributary to Siam. Its inhabit ante, consist of the Malays ; also the Bette, Barak, Mandeling, and horinchi people of Sumatra; the Bugis and wild tribes in the interior, with settlers from Europe and China. The Bugis are much respected. They at one time overran Quedah, but are now of little importance. The Korinehi are strict Mubammadans, dress always in white. They have the Malay manners and language, but use a writing character of their own. The Rawa and Mandeliug people are labourers.
The Orang Binua, literally men of the country, are called Sakai by the Malays of Perak, also Orang Bukit or hillmen, or Orang Laut or sea men, or Jakun, Besisik, from the localities or rivers they occupy. The Sakai or Jakun of Perak are smaller in size than the Malay. The Semang of Perak are of the same size as the Malay, in complexion of a dark-brown more than black, with flat nose, thick lips, large mouth, and hair not lank and black like the Malay, nor woolly like the Ethiopian Negro, but long and in tufts., The Perak population has been estimated at 30,000 to 80,000, and its wild tribes at 5000 or 6000.
Selangor runs for 120 miles south of Perak, from lat. 3° 50' N. The mass of the population
is Malay, but the government was held by Bugis from Celebes. In the early part of the 19th century, it was more addicted to piracy than any other of the states of the Malay Peninsula.
Until the earlier part of the 19th century, the Malays on the E. and W. coasts of the Peninsula were largely piratical.
Rhio-Lingga is the name given to two groups of islands, the Rhio and Lingga, forming the Archi pelago of innumerable islands and reefs stretching between Sumatra and Borneo, and which, till 1824, were a part of the formerly powerful kingdom of Lingga, which extended over a great part of the Malay Peninsula, and over the mari time provinces on the east coast of Sumatra from Palembang to the territory of Siak. The Rhio group includes Bintang, Battam, Gallat, Bulan, Chumbol, Sugel, Durian (Dryon), Karimon, and Segupong ; that of Lingga including Lingga, Sinkep, Timian and Boding, Saga and the Seven Islands. On the cession from the Netherlands to the British Government of the Dutch possessions on the Mal ay Peninsula, Rhio (pronounced Bee -ow) became of some importance.