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ARAB PUNISHMENTS. 
perty made over to the relatives of the murdered 
person, and the eyes of the murderer gouged, or he 
is thrown over the precipice below the palace. If a 
husband comes upon a case of adultery, he is per- 
mitted to kill the offender on the spot. Unnatural 
crimes they regard with horror, but these are said to 
be known only amongst the " waeroo" or slaves; so 
that the Karague laws are as strict as our own, and, 
without statistics, I believe there is far less crime. 
The punishments at Muscat and Zanzibar, under Arab 
government, were described to me by Frij, and are 
barbarous in comparison with the code at Karague. 
For theft, the hand is cut off ; if the property is re- 
covered, the thief at Zanzibar is buried in the sea- 
shore up to his neck, to allow the tide to reach him — 
a mode of punishment that will remind the reader of 
the case of the alleged Wigtown martyrs. Some 
silver and clothes were stolen from the sultan of Zan- 
zibar, and the thieves being detected were pulled up 
to the top of a flagstaff and thrown to the ground. 
At Muscat the tongue of the thief is cut off, and 
owing to this severe punishment there are few cases 
of theft. The Arabs are hard masters, and train their 
servants (several of whom were with us) in a system 
of rigorous discipline. To enforce despatch, a master 
will spit on the ground, and say to his servant, " If 
that dries up before you return with an . answer to 
my message, you 11 get flogged." 
Musical instruments were in greater variety in 
Karague than we had previously met with, and the 
little plaintive native airs could be picked up and 
hummed, they were so sweet and pleasing to the ear. 
There was stringed, wind, and drum music. Their most 
