In that spirit, then, this article reexamines some ethnographic contexts of
negrito adaptation to the rainforest, with emphasis on the Semang of Peninsular
Malaysia, broadly, and the Batek of Pahang in particular. Additional examples are
drawn from literature on the Agta of the Philippines (Reid this issue) and nonnegrito
hunter-gatherers in the region, including the Penan of Borneo.4