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MALAY SKETCHES

there were no marks of violence on the corpse, which
was duly buried.
When the matter was were
reported, inquiries
made but elicited
they nothing. Some months after
the relatives of the dead man appeared at Teluk
Anson, and said they had good reason to believe that
he had met with foul indeed that he had been
play,
murdered at a called Lambor a few miles
place
below Bota and above Pulau An
Tiga. intelligent
Malay sergeant of police proceeded to the spot,
arrested a number of who denied all 'know-
people,
ledge of the affair, and took them to Teluk Anson.
Arrived there, these people said they were able to

give all the necessary information if that would
procure their release, as they had only promised to
keep their mouths shut so long as they themselves
did not suffer for it.
The details of the story as told in evidence are as
follows, and they are very characteristic of the
Malay :
It appears that the hawker duly arrived in his
boat at Lambor, and there tied up for the night to
a stake, about twenty feet from the bank of the
river. Shortly afterwards a Malay named Ngah
Prang, stopped three of his acquaintances walking
on the bank, asked them if they had seen the
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