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less frequented villages have no personal knowledge of the higher 
officers of Government. Government means to most of them a 
Native Inspector of Police, a Sub-collector of rates, a native Land- 
surveyor, an Overseer of Public Works with his convicts, and the 
Kali, all of whom they look upon as impersonations of power, and 
all of whom, if so disposed, may find exhaustless profit in this per- 
suasion. They have sometimes seen the Raa Sabrang * the 
Raja Polis, + and the Raja Bandwan, t usually accompanied 
by some members of the official stratum interposed between them 
and the higher one to which the powers of the latter are assumed 
to be delegated. The superior ranks are merged in the vague and 
mythical idea of ‘‘ Kampani” (Hast India Company). The great 
personages with whom they are nrore immediately concerned are 
not the European Rdas, but the Native Datus or chiefs, the power 
of two of whom, each in his department, the Police and the Land 
Survey, || they believe to be unlimited, and to descend, in various 
measures, on those who are supposed to stand well with them. 
The recognition of heads of villages named by the villagers them- 
selves will afford a means of mutual access to the higher Officers 
of Government and to them. It will give all of them a sense of 
being directly recognised by the Raja Bésar of the Settlement 
himself as good subjects of the Queen, and of not being merely 
subjected to the law but of being associated in its maintenance, 
while the appointments will be objects of a healthy ambition. It 
will enable Government to inform and influence the population, 
supplying it, as it were, with an agent and mouth-piece in every 
kampong. If the system be properly fostered, it will go far to 
keep the influence of the jumahas and of religious and other leaders 
within legitimate bounds, and establish a feeling of attachment to 
and confidence in the superior officers of Government and of loyalty 
to the Crown. 
9. The system will subserve another and most important end— 
that of gradually educating the Malays. A large proportion of 
* The Police Magistrate. 
+ The Deputy Commissioner of Police. 
{ The Assistant Engineer. 
|| To the imagination of the ordinary Malay the power and resources of 
the former are boundless. I once overhead a group of Malays talking about 
2 criminal case, and the conclusion at which they arrived was that ‘he could 
make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent.” The nativesurveyors are 
supposed to have the power of conferring the right to lots of land by survey- 
ing them, and the Datu Sukat Tanah in his visits to theinland districts is 
received with more distinction than the highest European Officers of Govern- 
ment, 
