be redeemed for a pecuniary compensation, but this is
entirely at the option of the chief enemy or injured party, who,
after his sentence is passed, may either have his victim eaten,
or he may sell him for a slave; but the law is that he shall be
eaten, and the prisoner is entirely at the mercy of his
prosecutor.

The laws by which these sentences are inflicted are too well
known to require reference to books, but I am promised some MS.
accounts which relate to the subject. These laws are called huhum
pinang an,--from depang an, to eat--law or sentence to eat.

I could give you many more details, but the above may be
sufficient to show that our friends the Battas are even worse
than you have represented them, and that those who are still
sceptical have yet more to learn. I have also a great deal to say
on the other side of the character, for the Battas have many
virtues. I prize them highly.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote D: At the extreme north of the Philippine Islands.]

[Footnote E: Hawaii.]

[Footnote F: Phormium tenax.]

[Footnote G: mere.]

[Footnote H: Nicholas's "Voyage to New Zealand."]

[Footnote I: The transport "Boyd" was taken by Maoris and burned at
Whangaroa Harbour in 1809. Most of the people on board were massacred,
there being only four survivors out of seventy souls.]

[Footnote J: William Marsden, who was sent out from Dublin to Sumatra,
about 1775, as a writer in the East India Company's service.]

CHAPTER II.

Rutherford and his comrades spent another night in the same manner as
they had done the previous one; and on the following morning set out, in
company with the five chiefs, on a journey into the interior.

When they left the coast, the ship was still burning. They were attended
by about fifty natives, who were loaded with the plunder of the
unfortunate vessel. That day, he calculates, they travelled only about
ten miles, the journey being very fatiguing from the want of any regular
roads, and the necessity for making their way through a succession of
woods and swamps.

The village at which their walk terminated was the residence of one of
the chiefs, whose name was Rangadi,[K] and who was received on his
arrival by about two hundred of the inhabitants.

They came in a crowd, and, kneeling down around him, began to cry aloud
and cut their arms, faces, and other parts of their bodies with pieces
of s