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Wlien people quarrel in the market and abuse each other, they inay 

 revue each other personally ever so strongly, without much notice being taken 

 of it; but if in abusing a man one revues his father or grandfather, or in 

 abusing a slave one reviles his master, they at once begin a deadly fight; 

 therefore they say that it is better to have slaves than to have land, because 

 slaves are a protection to their masters. 



Women hold a market at night , but must finish at the second drum; 

 when they stay over this term and are caught by the patrolling orang Imya, 

 they are killed and the king does not look further into the afFair. 



For slight offences they use whipping. Their capital punishment is 

 as follows: they take a piece of woocl like a post, of which one end is 

 sharpened and the other planted in the ground about tvvo feet deep ; the 

 sharp point is introduced into the anus of the criminal, who cries out for 

 a moment, but immediately afterwards the point penetrates into his body 

 and kills him. 



The poorer people put the body of their dead on a pile of woocl and 

 burn it; the richer fiH the coffin with camphor and burn it likewise; the 

 next morning all the bones are reduced to clust. 



In this country there are many high mountains and deep valleys. 

 One can go to Siam overland. 



They have much intercourse with Java, but the Javanese are known 

 to be very fierce and if they take them into their service, eight or nine 

 out of ten kill or wouncl their masters. These Javanese are very skilied in 

 the use of the blow-pipe with poisoned arrows ; if a man is wounded by these 

 he dies instantly. 



In the period Chéng-tê (1506 — 1522) a ship of the Franks (Portu- 

 guese) came to trade here ; a quarrel arose about money-matters , on which 

 the king put the captain into prison. The Franks went away and made a 

 report to their lord, who determined to rescue him. For this reason he 

 equipped eight large ships, with a number of picked troops, who appeared 

 at once before the place. At that time a year had passed away already and 

 the people of Malacca were not at all prepared; a great slaughter was 

 therefore made amongst them and the chief of the Franks took posscssion 

 of the palace. The king fled to P'o-ti-li and large numbcrs of the people 

 dispersed also. 



The Franks wantod to sell the country to Siam, but their offer was 

 refusecl. They therefore collccted their troops, filied their ships and went 

 away, on which the king came back to his old place. 



