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(a) i. Homicide . Whether considered criminal at all ? 
under what circumstances excusable ? 2. Suicide. Whether 
considered criminal or praiseworthy ? 3. Maiming. 4. Rape 
5. Abduction. 6 . Seduction. 7. Abuse of children. 8. Assault. 
9. Adultery. Are all these offences which may be revenged 
by the party injured ? or must he appeal to the chief or others 
for redress ? or are they or any of them looked upon as mere 
venial offences ? 10. Unnatural Offences. Does any sense of 
criminality attach to these ? Under each head of crime, in¬ 
quire as to the extent to which it prevails. 
( 8 ) 11. Arson. 12. Trespass. 13. Theft. 14. Fraud. 
Are these recognised as offences against the community, or 
only against the person injured ? 
(y) 15. The crimen lessee majestatis , including treason, rebel¬ 
lion, and all offences against the chief of the State. Are his 
dignity and person protected by any special sanction ? 
(8) 16. Offences against the persons of priests or the cere¬ 
monies of religion. 17. Dissent from the prevailing religion. 
18. Are either or both of these esteemed criminal? and in 
what degree? 19. Does there exist a criminal class? 
20. Does Thuggism prevail, or any organised system of 
crime ? if so, give statistics. 
E. W. B. 
No. XXXII.—MORALS. 
The imperfection of our accounts of morals among savage 
and barbarous peoples is in a great measure due to travellers 
supposing the particular system of morals in which they 
themselves were educated to be the absolute system ; thus 
they have merely approved or condemned what corresponded 
with or opposed their own notions, but have scarcely ever 
appreciated the fact that every tribe has its own system of 
morality, based on its own principles of right and wrong. 
It is necessary to place ourselves at the point of view of the 
