CRIME. 



un frequently accompanied by murder, had been 

 carried on unchecked for nearly seven yeans in the 

 harbour and its vicinity, although two hundred dol- 

 lars had been offered for his appfehension. He at 

 length became, in 1826, so daring as to threaten to 

 sack Penaga village, close to the chief civil station. 

 This offered a fair opportunity for apprehending him 

 which was' done by a party of sepoys and peons at 

 the opium shop on the ihiah side of Vluila river. 

 This was not accomplished before his second in eom- 

 uiand had been run through the body by a sepoy of 

 the then Local Corps whom he had wounded. 

 When Euga Manet was reminded of bis late threat, 

 lie replied to me with a smile, that fate was against 

 In m. His wife, a coarse, powerful woman, accompa- 

 nied him in his piratical excursions. He was fried 

 for one of his burglaries and hanged. He went to 

 the gallows fcith the utmost composure, and only 

 spoke to request that the Governor would take care 

 of his faintly. The conscience of such a man is 

 clcarl\ nothing more than his own opinion of his own 

 actions ttld that opinion was probably quite satis- 

 factory to his mind. Here prayer and piracy are 

 too often consecutive acts. Offenders in European 

 communities rarely meet death with such apathy or 

 coolness as this fellow displayed. Their resolution is 

 <_ < uerally either an eribrt of despair, or alleeted in 

 ordi i to appear with eclat to the last in the eyes of 

 their associates. The current of life pours thro' the 

 veins of the life-enjoyiug European felon with an ini- 

 peluosih rarely to be found or expected in those of 

 the Asiatic, ami the revulsion therefore arising from 

 the anticipated punishment is much more powerful 

 in the first, than in the second case. The Malay ge- 

 nerally gains in bulk and sleekness while imprisoned 

 jaevious to trial, and one who at a late Session was 



