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SULU.
The Story of a Primitive People.
THE BAJAOS,
They are born in tiny sailing canoes: known as vintas and pas. They live their entire lives upon the ((water, so seldom stepping ashore that the old people say walking upon solid ground makes them dizzy And when they die, they are buried. in coffins made from their boats. Yet they fear the seal
Such is the
fate of the Bajac, Sea-Gypsles, writes Carl N. Taylor, Assistant Professor of English, University of the Philippines.
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QUEEN'S present
A tribe so primitive that appar- ently it has no word for God, and yat modern enough to use matches, alarm clocks, and diving goggles; a people dependent upon sea food, yet extremely bad fishermen, the Bajaes must rank among the most para- doxical people in existonce to-day. And paradoxically, this strange tribe evidently a forgotten link in the chain of Pacific migration, has been almost entirely neglected by ethnologists and travel writers.
The careful housewife thought her home was quite free of all insects, but to her great dismay this Cockroach was right at her very table.
Do YOU know how to rid your house of these pests --- the answer lies in three words:-
PETERMAN'S ROACH
FOOD.
Sold by leading stores and dispensaries.
Punch in the holes in the top of the tin and scatter the complete contents, as much as possible, out of sight in order that it will remain longer. This powder kills Cockroaches but not before they have taken some back on their legs to their nests and thus destroyed far more than are ever seen.
religion of Bajas family life until the tribe is finally assimilated into the shore tribes or starved by the competition of more skilful fisher-
Occasionaly their sails are seen as far north as Zamboanga, in the Philippines, and as far south as Java, but the principal Bajao fleets never venture more than a hundred and fifty miles from the Island of Sitankai twenty miles of the cast const of British North Borneo.
This island is the rendezvous of the tribe. Clusters of anchored to five boata housing from two thousand people are always to be found at Sitankai. Although an accurate census is impossible, the total Eajac population may be placed Christianity are popularly termed conservatively in the neighbourhood Moros. As a matter of fact, the of thirty thousand, the majority of ethnological variations among the
peoples living upon the three hun whom spend their lives in boats ared odd islands of this archipelage
hewn from the trunks
trees,
of single
men.
"Ai - natives of the Sulu not profess archipelago who do
are almost endless. For the pur The old people of the tribe say poses of this article, however, al that their ancestors came from the Sulu people may be divided into two Tausugs and Samals. vicinity of Johore about two hun-groups;
this lassification, the dred and fifty years ago, having Under been blown northward for many Tausugs are hill people, and confined days by a terrific wind. The for the most part to the northern the fol- islands. The Samals are the shore migration they explain
people a much more primitive lowing manner:
In the time previous to their group of fisherfolk who speak a departure from Johore, the Bajnos language differing radically from Reginald were sea dwellers, just as they are Sulu, which is known locally as
Their headman, Ramed Samal. Denny in "Embarassing to-day.
Sulu belongs to the Malayan LAMMERT BROS. Monents," a Universal comedy. Dwans, had an attractive daughter
This film has an amusing plot who was coveted, and finally taken group of languages; while Sama! that ramifies into every conceiv- by force, by a chief of the shore seems to have a Polynesian origin.
The exact relationship of the, able complication capable of people, named Salibungau. Fleeing arousing mirth. It deals with the from her husband, the daughter re- Samals and Bajaos is hard to define, her father's boat and As the two groups now exist, they introduction of the idea of "trial turned to
Being a differ radically in culture, although marriage" in a small community sought sanctuary upon it. that holds to the old-fashioned Peaceful tribe and afraid of the they speak closely related dialects, shore dwellers, the Bajaos prayed which are mutually understood by national ideal. A talkie film.
for a wind to carry them away. both peoples. The Samals are The wind came, and drove them to Mohammedans, and inclined to treat CENTRAL features William the Sulu Sea, where they have re- the Bajaos as inferior, the Bajuos are pagans, and, apparently con Powell and Richard Arlen in "The mained until the present day,
I first heard of the Bajao Sea-scious of their inferior state, they Four Feathers." A war in which
manifest no outward resentment to anthropologist of the Philippine
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
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TOLL OF DISEASE.
CALCUTTA POISONED BY SMOKE.
The air we breathe in Calcutta is polluted, stagnant and in some districts for long periods, is unft
for human consumption," declares the report of the Bengal Smoke Nuisances Commission for 1929.
Calcutta's respiratory diseases cause the largest death-rate from any single disease and over half the deaths amongst babies.
MISSING CONSUL.
SUICIDE TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY PARIS PRESS.
Paris papers
Most of the take it for granted to-day that Mr. A. R. Lee, the missing Bri-
tish. Consul at Marseilles, has committed suicide, although his mother and his brother deny that the clothing found in a valise washed up by the sea at Montre- don, near. Marseilles, can be his, and say that, although the in- The smoke from as many of the acription on the photograph factorice, steamers, etc., as can be found in this clothing alightly re- seen is observed from the Central sembles his handwriting, it con- Smoke Observatory, which is fit-tains a spelling mistake which he ted with a telephone and situated certainly would not have made. on the top of a high building. The others are observed from the dis- tricts.
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The "Matin", declares that he killed himself because he could not persuade his mother to con- 3,900 Offences.
sent to his marriage with a Swiss During the year 8,900 offences girl who had formerly been one were reported against 5,828 for the of her servants, and also because previous year. The telephonic com- the girl had not met him, as ho munications" from the Observatory had asked her to de a few days at the time of the offences rose ago.
Inspections The "Matin" also states that man has been from 1,871 to 1,463. and tests for educational purposes the body of a rose from 7,002 to 3,023. Statutory seen in the water near the spot warnings under the Act were lasted where the valise was found, but There have been no pro recover it owing to the roughness in seven cases as against twelve for that it has not been possible to last year. secutions for the last four years. of the sea. The Commission, like other modern departments, is convinced, on the at Godown No. 18, The Hong Kong the casualties were almost as Gypsies from Dr. H. Otley Beyer their treatment at the bands of the
long view that broad educational large as those of the world con Bureau of Science, early in 1929. shore people... It is flict forms a thrilling background for this Paramount film. The It was a year later before I had an originally the Samals and Bajaos and co-operative policy in the skill- Dervish Rebellion against the opportunity to visit their floating were are people, and that both ed work of smoke abatement gene-
scavengers fail, the pungent smoke study them at first peoples to-day are the descendants rally gives the best result. villages and
Calcutta's greatest amoka pro- remain stationary at ground level British in the Soudan in
deadly, low-lying like a channel fog.. The residents Comprising:-
1881 cost more than 6,000,000 band. And then only after making of the same sea-roving ancestora
an arduous trip through the Sul This presumption, however, problem is the
domestic and kindred smoke. The in some districts are gassed for Flour, Sulphate of Ammonia, lives. A magnificent spectacle Sea in a native sapit. Sickness, bably would not be admitted by any
daily discharge of steamer and hours at night. Life is awful. The Iron,. Steel Sheets, Glass Bottles, throughout. A sound film.
which forced us to remain rather
factory black smoke has been re- deaths f respiratory diseases Old Newspapers, Sugar, Matches,
longer than we had planned as the
duced from. 200,000 to 6,500 vault high. Personal Effects, Hair Oil, Cigars, i
gueats of Mr. Perry L. Machlan,
WEDNESDAY, August 27, 1930,
ON
commencing at 10.30 am..
Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Co., Ltd., Kowloon.
A Quantity of
MISCELLANEOUS. GOQDS
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Cigarettes, Wire,, Acid, Bar Ends, MAJESTIC presents Esther customs agent of the Philippine Wood, Salt Fish, Tea, Rozora, Ralston and Gary Cooper in "Huif Government at Sitankai, proved a Plate Cuttinga. Wire Rope. O, a Bride." The film is an in- disguised blessing, and I was en Cotton Ware, Enamel Ware, Hemp, triguing study of modern fast abled to learn more about the Bajaos etc., etc...
living and its antithesis. The than we had hoped. and
story moves from the gilded ball- Among other things I had the rooms of the wealthy, through the privilege of being the only white sordid underworld pleasure dives, man ever to submit to treatment at to the clean deck of an ocean- the hands of a Bajao medicine man. going yacht, and then the in- Furthermore, we were probably the triguing setting of a desert island only white people ever allowed to A silent filma........
be present at their curing cere- monies.
One Steam Launch "Seagull" Dying off the Godowns.
Ono Locomotiva Boller.
One Stationary Steam Crane (Smith's Lead), 6 Tons 18: Radius,
On View from K.M. Lot 49. Terms: Cash on Delivery...
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers Hong Kong, August 19, 1930.
Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Publie
Auction
ON SATURDAY, August 30, 1938, commencing at 11 am, at No. 19, Jordan Road (2nd Floor), Kowloon.
A Quantity of " VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE................
On View from Friday, August 29, 1980,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneera
Hong Kong, August 25, 1980, 1
ALL KIND
OF CAR
REPAIRS.
THE
FIA
and
Samal.
probable that
"DISILLUSIONED."
£6,000 SPENT IN THREE YEARS.
London, July 9. The suicide of a young man who ran through £6,000 in three yeRṛs Was the subject of an inquest at Westminster yesterday on James Scott Law, aged thirty, who was
The Bajaos are pagans, untouched STAR features Esther Ralston by Christian influences. None of found dead in his flat in Lichfield
Raymond Hatton in their children has ever been sent Street, Charing Cross Road, W.C.
Miss Amy Thompson, secretary Fashions for Women," a lavish to schools and foreign missionaries
the to Law's father, said that photoplay of beautiful women and apparently have not yet heard of father gave his son £6,000 three sophisticated humour. Every them. But to say that they are free type and style of women's wear from proselytizing influences would hars ago for him to settle in life. ing apparel is on show in this pic-be to give a false impression; there rooms in Lichfield Street and spont ture which has Paris as its locale are missionaries enough, among the money.
Paris the style centre of the them, but they are Moslems, not world. A silent film.
dary Vixen," a Chinese drama.
کو
TRAGIC FATE OF COL. SIDNEY GREEN.
floor Law had written, "I have taken all the sleaping dope I have accumulated for months. okt
The coroner, added
Dr. Gordon, of Charing Cross Christians.net
Hospital, stated that death was Surrounded by Mohammedan from paraldehyda poisoning. Moros: In Sulu and Mohammedan Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the coroner, WORLD presents "The Legen- Malaya in Borneo, they have little said that in a lefter found on the
opportunity for contact with other peoples. Consequently, the local Imam and Hadjie, alert for new converts to Islam and one sus pecta, not averse to obtaining for themselves, whatever money, they can London, Augyist 2. acquires in the name of Islam.. HAY" A postman making his morning brought continudin pressure upon delivery in a quiet lane in Oakham the Baisos, best was horrified to find a body, Imam and huddled up in a hedge, with a re- the
| volver beside it. via channel enough
The body was soon. Identifled as influence that of Colonel Bidi Green, a result
figure Haštéra
Ethext
other circu
pon the ord
At the
It is a tragic though not un familiar story of a young man boing provided with a large sum of money, uncontrolled by › any- body before he has arrived at the age of discretion, with the object
ΟΣ
of rendering him Independent He
them, or whose became, I understand, surrounded
medan;
by parasites and sycophants, and
soon began to drink heavily, and spent all the £6,000 in three years,
the tribe being left penniless,
113 is based Law wrote In the letter "Can't
stop drinking have no more emory of "Meg Islam money; good life and a hell of a they are Moham• dne.” He asked for forgiveness, their boats and sent, his love to his mother, sister, "from and niece, and said that he was lostile katura tried and disillusioned, ulje
Verdict of (sound mind.”
“Suicide while
domestic fires is over 1 million minutes.
Domestic amoke Is discharged at
ground level; and when the aerial
minutes. The dally discharge of The remedy is cheap electricity. amoke of equivalent density from gas and smokeless fuel,
the
Moose Pose for Photo
rund his osinpai
two infest mapo
insose were
oda at Metagama, North Ontario, where 25, U. Bate
kloons are thursally plentiful this spring' Mr the camps the other day and looking
quilta taxis and Ara here shown being posed for a phot pubota wire taken within a mile of the Canadian-Pacide