Their Slaves Lazy and Vicious. ^27 
ing fucrificed to the dead, and money that fhould difcharge 
-a debt, or feed an orphan, lavidild in idle proceflions, or ma- 
terials that a r e depofited in the earth to rot. 
Another numerous clafs among the inhabitants of this 
country is the Haws; for by flat es the Dutch, Portuguese, 
and Indians, however different in their rank or fituation, are 
conftantly attended : they are purchafed from Sumatra, Ma- 
lacca, and almoll all -the eailern iflands. The natives of Ja- 
va, very few of whom, as I have before obferved, live in the 
neighbourhood of Batavia, have an exemption from flavery 
under the fanftion of very fevere penal laws, which I believe 
are feldom violated. The price of thefe flaves is from ten to 
twenty pounds fterling ; but girls, if they have beauty, lome- 
times fetch a hundred. They are a very lazy -fet of people ; 
■but as they will do but little work, they are content with a 
little viftuals, fubfifting altogether upon boiled rice, and a 
•fmall quantity of the cheapefl: filh. As they are natives of 
different countries, they differ from each other extremely, 
-both in perfon and difpofition. The African negroes, called 
here Papua, are the word, and confequently may be purchafed 
Tor the lead money : they are all thieves, and all incorrigible. 
Next to thefe are the Bougis and Macaflars, both from the 
ifland of Celebes ; thefe are lazy in the highell degree, and 
-though not fo much addifted to theft as the negroes, have a 
cruel and vindictive fpirit, which renders them extremely 
dangerous ; efperially as, to gratify their refen tment, they 
will make no fcruple of facri firing life. The bell: flaves, and 
confequently the dearelt, are procured from the ifland of Bali : 
the moil beautiful women from Nias, a fmall ifland on the 
coall of Sumatra*; but they are of a tender and delicate con- 
-ftitution, and foon fall a facrifice.to the unwholefome air of 
•Batavia. Befldes thefe, there are Malavs, and flaves of fe- 
veral other denominations, wdiol'e particular charafterillic I 
do not remember. 
Thefe flaves are wholly in the power of their m afters with 
refpeft to any punilhment that does not fake away life; but 
if a Have dies in confequence of punifhment, though his death 
■fhould not appear to have been intended, the mailer is called 
■to a fevere account, and he is generally condemned to fuffer 
capitally. For this reafon .the maker Teldom inflifts punifli- 
ment upon the Have himfelf, but applies to an officer called a 
Marineu, one of whom is llationedih every di Hr i ft. The du- 
ty -of the Marineu is to quell .riots, and take offenders into cuf- 
•tody ; but more particularly to apprehend runaway flaves, 
and punifh them for fuch crimes as the mailer, fupported by 
proper evidence, lays to their charge : the punilhment how- 
ever is not inflifted by the Marineu in perlon, but by flaves 
v ho are bred up to tlie.bufuiefs. Men are punilhed publicly, 
before 
