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Malays of Ceylon^ 
justice being rendered to the accused. The patience with which 
the Malays submit to the sentence of their court-martial, and 
their a’efraining from revenge when they are assured that justice 
is intended them, is another striking argument in support of 
what I have already advanced, that mild and generous treatment 
will in the end have the effect of subduing their natural ferocity*. 
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