ON THE MALA'YU NATION, 149 



" If a slave is not provided with food by his master, the magistrate 

 shall direct him- to perform service for the person who relieved him^ for 

 four seasons; after which he shall be returned to his- master. 



" If such slave dies, while performing service for the person who 

 relieved him, and the circumstance is made known to the proper officers, 

 he shall not be answerable for his value ; but if the slave dies, and the per- 

 son for whom he performs service does not report it 3 he shall be answer- 

 able to the proprietor of the slave,,, for half the amount of his value, for 

 such is the loss sustained when a slave dies/' 



ei In conformity to the above, are the laws respecting persons in distress* 

 at sea, or who have been wrecked ; for 



" If the persons who have been wrecked say, 5C take ur and selFus 

 rather than allow us to perish here/' and the Nakkodah takes them ac- 

 cordingly, he shall only have a claim to their services until the Prahu 

 reaches the port ; when-, if he is- desirous of selling them, it shall be his duty 

 to report the same to the Shahhender, in order that the magistrate may 

 direct, that the Nakhodah be entitled to half the amount of their value. 

 What the persons who were wrecked may have said, shall riot be attend- 

 ed to, because they were in distress; 



" If persons who have suffered from being wrecked, are met with at 

 the time they are in the water, swimming, without a chance of their 

 reaching the land in safety, and at their request are taken up by the 

 Nakhodah of any Prdhu, the Nakhodah shall be entitled to demand on his 

 arrival at port, the sum of one Pahar (two dollars,) if the party is not a 

 slave, and if a slave, the half of the amount of his value, but no more. 



" If ship-wreck': d persjns are met under the lee of an island, where: 



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