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Some account of Batavia

they never attempted to hurt any one, except those who attempted, or appeard to them to attempt to stop or seize them, whoever ran away or even went on the other side of the street was safe, to prove that these people distinguish persons  mad as they are with the use of Opium, there is a famous story in Batavia, of one who run Amoc on account of stripes & ill usage, which he had receivd from his mistress & her elder daughter, but on the contrary had been always well usd by the younger; he stabbd first the eldest daughter, the youngest hearing the bustle ran to the assistance of her mother, &placd herself between him & her, attempting to persuade him from his design, but he repeatedly pushd her on one side before he could get at her mother, who when he had killd he ran out as usual, these people are generaly slaves, who indeed are by much the most subject to insults which they cannot revenge, freemen however sometimes do it, one of them, who did it while I was there was free, & of some substance, the cause was Jealousy of his own brother, whoom he killd with two more that attempted to oppose him before he was taken, he however never came out of his house  which he attempted to defend, but so mad

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