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Some account of Batavia

& Nias a small Island on the Coast of Sumatra  the hansomest women, but of tender delicate Constitutions, ill able to bear the unwholesome climate of Batavia., Besides these are many more sorts whose names & qualifications I have intirely forgot.

[Margin note] Punishments
The laws & customs regarding the punishment of Slaves, are these,  a master may punish a slave as far as he thinks proper by stripes, but should death be the consequence he is calld to a very severe account, if the fact is provd very rarely escaping with life, there is however an officer in every quarter of the town, calld Marineu, who is a kind of constable, he attends to quell all riots, takes up all people guilty of crimes &c, but is more particularly used for the apprehending runaway slaves, & punishing them for that or any other crime, for which their master thinks they deserve a greater punishment than he chuses to inflict, these punishments are inflicted by slaves bred up to the business, on men they are inflicted before the door of their masters house, on women for decency sake within it, they are stripes given in number according to custom & the nature of the Crime, with rods made of
 

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