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3. Wachaka cheettang, proceeding for the purpose of killing 
4. Upamano, approaching it. 
5. Tena maranang, killing it. 
The Butcher before he slays beseeches the spirit supposed to be 
shut up in the body to seek another happier abode. Certain spirits 
are invoked on such an occasion, such are the P,hreeya Yommaraat 
and P,hreea Rong mu-ung. 
The punishment for manslaughter may be commuted by a heavy 
fine, attended in many cases by imprisonment. But death is the 
sentence the law awards. Little distinction is made where a person 
has killed another by accident. 
SUICIDE, 
Self-murder is not unfrequent and is attributed by the natives to 
love or ambition disappointed- 
The Siamese on such occasions prefer hemp or steel, to gunpow¬ 
der. 
A native of Hindustan, particularly of the warlike classes, uses 
the musket if he can get one, and will frequently revenge on himself 
what a native of another country would inflict on the object which 
caused his ebulition of passion. A slight fit of jealousy, as many may 
have witnessed, nay a slight quarrel with a friend, will often urge a 
native of Hindustan to put an end to his life, 
M. de la Loubere was in error when he asserted that the Siamese 
hang themselves from a religious or superstitious motive, at least, m 
50 far as he inferred that it is usual. 
The first principle of their belief, is that the shedding of blood is 
3 , heinous offence, and they are not of a temperament to easily ac¬ 
quiesce in self mortification or self destruction, but they do sometimes 
from a feeling of disgrace arising from, false accusations hang them- 
sdves. 
