461 MALAY AMOK* REFERRED TO MAH0MEDANI1M. 
that on the same occasion you stabbed no less than 10 other 
unfortunate persons, only 2 of whom are at present surviving. 
It now becomes my duty to pass upon you the last sentence 
of the law. I can scarcely call it a painful duty, for the blood 
of your innocent victims cries aloud for vengeance and both 
justice and humanity would be shocked were you permitted to 
escape the infamy of a public execution. God Almighty 
alone, the great “searcher of hearts,” can tell precisely what 
passed in that wretched heart of your’s before and at the 
time when you committed these atrocious deeds; nor is it 
necessary for the ends of justice that we should perfectly 
comprehend the morbid views and turbulent passions by 
which you must have been actuated. It is enough for us to 
know that you, like all other murderers, “ had not the fear of 
God before your eyes/* and that you acted “ of malice afore¬ 
thought and by the instigation of the devil’’ himself, who was 
“a murderer from the beginning.” But all the atrocities you 
have committed are of a peculiar character and such as are 
never perpetrated by Christians, Hindoos, Chinese, or any 
other class than Mahomedans, especially Malays, among whom 
they are frightfully common, and may therefore be justly 
branded by way of infamous distinction, as Mahomedan 
Murders. I think it right, therefore, seeing so great a con¬ 
course of Mahomedans in and about the Court, to take this 
opportunity of endeavouring to disabuse their minds and 
your own of any false notions of courage, heroism, or self 
devotion which Mahomedans possibly, but Mahomedans alone 
of all mankind, can ever attach to such base, cowardly and 
brutal murders; notions which none but the devil himself, 
“the father of lies,” could ever have inspired. But if such false, 
execrable and dangerous delusions really are entertained by 
any man or body of men whatever, it may be as well to show 
from the gloomy workings of your mind, so far as circum¬ 
stances have revealed them, that not a particle of manly cour- 
Klings, and two Chinese, of whom only two survived. On his trial it appeared 
that be was greatly afflicted by tbe recent loss of his wife and child, which 
preyed upon his mind and quite altered bis appearance. A person with whom 
he had lived up to tbe 15th of June said further “ He used to bring his child 
to bis work, since its death he has worked for me ; he often Baid be could not 
woik as he was sffl cled by the loss of his child, 1 think he was out of his 
mind, be did not Brnoke or drink, I thick be was mad.” On the morning of 
the amok this person met him, and asked him to 'work at his boat. “ He 
replied that he could not, he wrb ve-y much afflicted. 1 ' “ He bad bis bands 
concealed under his cloth, he frequently extdairoed, Allah I Allah !” " He 
daily complaint d of the loss of his wite and child,’* On the trial Sunan declared 
he did not know what he was about, and persisted in this at the place of 
execution, adding ** As the gentleman say I have committed so many murders 
I suppose it must be so.” The amok took place on the 8th, tbe trial on the 
13th, and the execution on the 15th July,— -all within eight days. 
