ttvsxixo amok — m-vnoos. 



the practice of running amok is hardly known at 

 Peuang, or indeed at any of the three Settlements.* 

 I do not recollect more than two instances, at the 

 ibrroer place, including Province Wellcsley, dining 

 the feat' seventeen years, and the hi^i I believe winch 

 took place on shore at Singapore, happened many 

 \ears ago. A man ran amok, or as the Malays term 

 it, menrf-amok. He had gamble*! deeply, it was said, 

 and had killed one or more individuals of his family, 

 lie next dosed himself with opium and rushed through 

 the streets with a drawn kris in his hand, and pursued 

 liy the police peons. Miijor Farquhar, the then 

 Resident, hearing the uproar, went out of his house, 

 -when the infuriated man who was just about to pass if, 

 oV'i' d at him and wounded him in the shoulder; 

 but a sepoy who was standing as a sentry at the door, 

 received the desperado on his bayonet at the same - 

 infant, and prevented a second blow. 



There are two mosques on the Island ; one nomi- 

 nally Malayan, the other Klingor Chuliah — but they 

 are both open to all mahometnns. 



The Hindoos have a small temple in the town, and 

 there is another of motler ate size, hut of a chaste order 

 of Indian architecture, situated in the country near 

 Suffolk House. It was built many \ears ago, by the 

 Ranee Dhobec, or "Queen of ihe washermen," as she 

 was termed, who made her fortune by monopolizing 

 all the rubs: and it retains her title. 



The Hindoos perform here all the absurd and often 

 monstrous rites of their religion, with exception of 

 widow-burning and dragging the car. The usual 

 swinging on tenter-hooks is a public and disgusting 

 exhibition — and in a civil ized colony, is a nuisance 

 and an offence against public deceno and feeling. 



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• Sine* tliifl wa* written, a cafe on board a boat has oceutrcd at Singapore; 

 tat il i* Ulkvtd Oial the boat was from a distant port. 



