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 and Abdulmajīd) who have now submitted to the Dutch Government.

There is no political significance in the fact that the people thus suffered many an injury to pass unnoticed, preferring to avoid the tuankus as much as possible. This exceedingly burdensome feudal system is simply a relic of past history.

The servants of the rajas were also a terrible scourge to the people.



They were generally men of ill repute—such for instance as had fled to the Dalam to escape a righteous blood-vengeance which threatened their lives. The smallest shadow of an injury was eagerly seized on and represented by them as high treason, and they sometimes succeeded in inducing the raja or the members of his family to take