MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES &C. 
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bees arrest attention, to connect a talc therewith, if it he a time at 
which Tuan seems at leisure. Homans’ words to death might he 
applied to the Dyak working by the day, “thou hast ail seasons for 
thine own.” If he wish to talk away time, the remedy is as easy 
by a smile at his art (he cannot hear that,) as by leaving him in a 
■quiet way ; I would do neither, unless the conversation were evi¬ 
dently mere pastime: the true method is to give our Dyaks job 
work, or allow them to take their own course, and judge, at each 
day’s end, by an average standard; if justice he done by discharge for 
neglect, shameful trifling will rarely occur until the man may have 
money enough for present purposes, and even then a regard to the 
future may secure an ordinary conduct. It is remarked by the Ma¬ 
lays that they themselves cannot do here what is of easy execution 
among almost any others of the race in this part of the Island, 
though it is plain that, as a rule, their terms are harder to the 
Dyak and easier from him than w r e uniformly use in buying from 
them and hiring their labor. Their wages, five pence sterling for 
such work as theirs, are large, and, at that rate, the man who works 
upon the Mission site about twenty days may at harvest prices, 
buy padi sufficient to yield rice that will he food for himself through- 
out the year : the very facility of living in some way, is a canker 
to their energy, in sadly toe many cases. I, this moment, hear that 
a boat is to go very soon to Pontianak, and must close abruptly, to 
finish other missives. 
Kalamantan. 
LETTER FROM LIEUT. COLONEL LOW WITH REFERENCE TO THE 
rev. mr. jones’ notes on the treatise on Siamese law. 
Province Wellesley , 1 Silt Sept. 1848. 
I feci pretty certain that your contributors, while writing for your 
Journal, are guided by an earnest desire to elicit truth and not by 
any paltry ambition of exhibiting themselves in print. I am led to 
these remarks by a letter of Mr. J. T. Jones which was published 
in your July No. [p. xxxii] in which he passes some comments 
upon my paper on Siamese Daw. No one can complain of criticism 
conceived in a right spirit ; nor shall I. Indeed I feel obliged to 
him for having given me an opportunity of correcting either com¬ 
missions or omissions. 
