Note 149 — LECTURE VIII. INSULAR AND LITTORAL PEOPLES.
Reading edition
The word aëta is Malayan, and means “black.” There is some doubt about the Semangs, as some of them are fair. See Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1886, p. 429, and compare F. de Castelnau in the Revue de philologie et d’ ethnographie, 1876, p. 174, sq.