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 bers. The post of panglima kawōm, like all Achehnese offices, devolves by inheritance, but as we have seen above, the holder of this office



may take no share in the territorial government. As regards the panglimaship, the three allied tribes count as one; where there exists a panglima of any one of them, he has no colleagues from the other two and attends to the interests of all alike. A blood-debt of any one of these kawōms is also regarded as resting on all three.

Settlement of blood-feuds seems in ancient times to have been made almost exclusively by the exacting of vengeance. While the latter is expressed by a word of Indian origin (bila) the milder custom of blood-money is only denoted by the Arabic appellation diët. Although the