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MALAY SKETCHES
up from off the hawker, untied the boat, one taking
a pole and another the rudder and disappeared down
the river. The hawker did not move. He was
dead.
The witnesses of this then to have
tragedy appear
returned to their homes and slept peacefully.
Several of them heard
naively remarked that they
the next day that the hawker had been found dead
in his boat, and it appears that when one of these
witnesses, on the following day, met one of the
murderers, he asked him what he was doing in
and the man that
Lenggang's boat, replied they
were robbing him, that he held the hawker by the
the others the hands and feet, but that
throat, by
really they had got very little for their trouble.
Meanwhile the three murderers told several of
the eye-witnesses of the affair that, if they said
anything, it would be the worse for them, and
occurred till a notice was
nothing particular posted
in the Mosque calling upon any one who knew
anything about Lenggang's death to report it to the
village Headman. Then Ngah Prang, who appa-
rently was the original instigator of the job, as so
often happens, thought he would save himself at the
expense of his friends, and actually went himself to
make a report, and, meeting on the way one of the
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