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where there is ufually a concourfe of fatlors and others, who have no 
honeft fcttlement 6f their own, and are therefore nport the town. In 
thefe^ vice generally reigos in a degree proj^H-tioned to rhe number tnd 
variety of people of different nations^ who inhabit the place, or occafi- 
onally refort thither. From the fcenes which thefe fea-ports prefcntj tra- 
vellers too commonly form their judgment, and imprudently take upon 
them to draw, for the information of the world, a pifhire of the man- 
ners of a people. 
The different fpecies of horrid and difgufttul crimes, which are em- 
phatically denominated, againft nature, are unknown on Sumatra nor 
have any t>f their languages t^rms to cxprefs fuch ideas. 
Inceft, or the intter marriage of perlbns within a certain degree of con- j^^^^ 
fanguinity ; which is perhaps (at leaft after the firft degree) rather an of- 
fence again ft the inftitutions of human prudence, than a natural crime; 
is forbidden by their cuftoms, and puniihable by line ; yet the guik is 
often expiated a. *'^rrm<%nj% und the maTriflges* in many inftancef, 
confirmed. 
Adultery is punifhable by fine ; but the crime is rare, and fuits on the AduJrery, 
fubjedt Hill lefs frequent. The hufband, it is probable, either conceak 
his lhame, or revenges it with his own has^d. 
if a man would divorce a wife he has married by jp&jeor^ he may D^y^j^^^j, 
clmm back what he has paid in part, lefs twenty five dollars, the addat 
tharny for the damage he has <3one her; but if he has paid the joojoor 
in full> the relations may chufe whether they will receive her or not; if 
not, he n>ay fell her^ If a man has paid part of a joojoor, but cannot 
raife the remaiiider, though repeatedly dunned for it, the parents of the 
girl may obtain a divorce; but if it is not with the hufband^s concur- 
r*ncei they lofe the advantage of the tharro^ and muft refund all they 
have received, A wbman married by joojoor muft briug with her, effedls ' 
to the amount of ten dollars^ ©r if not^ it is deducted from the jdbjoor; 
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