2 72 LOMBOCK. [chap. xi. 



But some time afterwards he sent one of his followers 

 to the house, who beckoned the girl to the door, and 

 then saying, " The Eajah sends you this," stabbed her to 

 the heart. More serious infidelity is punished still more 

 cruelly, the woman and her paramour being tied back 

 to back and thrown into the sea, where some large croco- 

 diles are always on the watch to devour the bodies. One 

 such execution took place while I was at Ampanam, but I 

 took a long walk into the country to be out of the way till 

 it was all over, thus missing the opportunity of haviug a 

 horrible narrative to enliven my somewhat tedious story. 



One morning, as we were sitting at breakfast, Mr. 

 Carter's servant informed us that there was an " Amok " 

 in the village — in other words, that a man was " running a 

 muck." Orders were immediately given to shut and fasten 

 the gates of our enclosure ; but hearing nothing for some 

 time, we went out, and found there had been a false alarm, 

 owing to a slave having run away, declaring he would 

 " amok," because his master wanted to sell him. A short 

 time before, a man had been killed at a gaming-table 

 because, having lost half-a-dollar more than he possessed, 

 he was going to " amok." Another had killed or wounded 

 seventeen people before he could be destroyed. In their wars 

 a whole regiment of these people will sometimes agree to 

 " amok," and then rush on with such energetic desperation 

 as to be very formidable to men not so excited as them- 



