41B 
THEFT. 
The mat neep mee are two plain pieces of wood betwixt which the 
fingers of the accused are put. Two corresponding ends of the sticks 
are tied together, and the process of torture consists in forcibly en¬ 
deavouring to make the two other ends join. 
Mai keep karnap, another instrument of torture, or head press, 
is like the one preceding used in cases of suspected treason, rebel¬ 
lion, or where the accused in face of competent witnesses steadily 
denies the crime laid to his charge. It consists of two bars of tough 
wood, having knobs on them to fit to the temples. They are appli¬ 
ed somewhat in the manner of the thumb screws. 
The extremities behind the head are joined by a rope, and the ex¬ 
ecutioner exerts his main force to draw the other two ends together, 
while the assistants strike the implement with hardened buffalo thongs 
to increase the pain. Branding of the feet, and hands with a red 
hot iron is employed to punish great offenders, especially these guil¬ 
ty of impiety or sacrilege. 
Khai are stocks for the feet. 
Sai so waist and neck chains. 
Tro-ttn are leg irons. 
For offences against decorum and breacli of filial duty, and abu¬ 
sive language, the slipper is freely applied to the mouth, and if the 
offence should have been great, rattaning, and beating with a cocoa- 
nut shell fastened to a stick are added (the slipper is a Mussulman 
instrument of opprobrious punishment.) 
THEFT. 
Is punished agreeably to the enormity of the offence, by stripes 
imprisonment, and fining. 
If the fine is not liquidated the prisoner becomes a slave. 
The receiver of stolen goods is punished with the same severity, 
nearly, as the actual thief. For stealing certain kinds of property, 
such as slaves, or for inveigling children from their parents, the of¬ 
fender is severely fined and has one hundred lashes of the buffalo 
skin thong inflicted on his back. He is then marked with indelible 
red or black ink on his breast; care being commonly taken to make 
