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Puni/hments,<br />

them. Jent amongit '<br />

3oo S U M A T R A.<br />

moral offence; becaufe they do not perceive that any ill refults from it.<br />

Adultery, in the men, is punifhed with death; but the women are only<br />

difgraced by having their heads fhaved, and are fold for Haves; which<br />

in fadt they were before. The diftribution of juftice in this cafe, is, I<br />

think, perfectly Angular. It muft proceed from their looking upon<br />

women as mere paffive fubjedts. " Can you put butter near to a fire;<br />

fay the Hindoo fages; and fuppofe that it will not melt?" The men<br />

alone they regard as poffeffing the faculties of free agents, who may controul<br />

their aftions, or give way to their paflions, as they are well or illinclined.<br />

Lives, however, are in all cafes redeemable; if the convicl:,<br />

or his relations, have property fufEcient; the quantum being in fome<br />

meafure at the difcretion of the injured party.<br />

Extraordinary But their moft extraordinary, though perhaps not the moft fingular<br />

cuftom preva- cuftom remains yet to be defcribed. Many old writers had furnilhed<br />

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