270 A TRANSLATION OF THH KEDDAH ANNALS. 
It appears that the Captain of tlie Raja’s guard was the 
executioner, which is the case also in China. [*] In flagrant 
cases of crime, the Malays of this coast punish by empalement, 
and also, like the Siamese and Burmese, by cutting open the body 
from the breast downwards. This last punishment was inflicted 
by one of the chiefs of Kedda during the rebellion of its Malays 
against Siam in 183031 upon the person of a Bengal man of 
Pinang, formerly a sepoy in the corps I commanded, who had 
joined the insurgents but was suspected of treachery. 
[U] The whole of this account of Gumpar is merely one of the 
Malayan modes of describing ihe acts of a hero. But our author 
has made the Raja’s subjects rather more disposed to assist him 
that might have been expected from them, liable as they wer# to be 
any day served up at the Raja’s table. The mention of blunder- 
busses is quite out of place, as such weapons were certainly not 
then known. 
[ X 1 Davies’ China, 
[To be continued,] 
