08 AIS ACCOUNT OF THE WJLD TRIIJES 



Llieni with any tliiiig. Tliougli 1 paid llie 

 most particular attention to my triRing and 

 simple bagi^age, every time thai I hayo tra- 

 velled in tin* inlerior, and had always a 

 servant watcliing, several tilings wei'e stol- 

 en, and some times I caught the rogue in 

 the fact : and what moreover shows a peo- 

 ple accnslomed (o such a vice, is that, af- 

 ter having been caught in the fact, they are 

 not at all disconcerted, and with an imper- 

 turliahle miig-J'roid dmy the circumstances. 

 To lie for a Malay is notliing, injustice and 

 perjury are l>ut small peccadilloes, which 

 will be forgiven hy God as soon as forgotten 

 from their memory, which happens pre- 

 sently. In order to plunder stranger who 

 journeys amongst Ihem , they must know in 

 detail all the parts uhich compose his pro- 

 perty; this is the reason of so many ques- 

 tions, more or less importunate, which 

 they put to the traveller, ujjon his state, 

 his foj'tune, liis position, anil the ohject^i 



