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 I.AVVS. 127 according as the marriage-knot is entire or other- wise." — " If a man kills or wounds his wife by Se' mando marriage, he pays the same as for a stran- ger.'* — " If a man kills his brother, he pays to the Proattins the Tepung-bumi.^* The strange practice of running a muck has been already explained in rendering an account of the manners of the people. A custom so dan- gerous and so frequent is of course often referred to in the native laws. The person who runs a muck may lawfully be killed by the first that meets him. In Celebes, especially, where, perhaps, mucks are, from the licentious sense of honour, entertain- ed by all ranks, more frequent than any where else, it is dangerous to be seen running in the streets of a town or village, for, among the Indian island- ers, none are ever seen to i^un unless those who run a muck, murderers, thieves, and robbers. * *' If," says the Malacca code, " a slave or debtor run a muck. boats or houses ; neither do they stir without it be out of ab- Bolute necessity. They used to laugh at us for walking about in their houses^ telling us that it looked as if we were macl, or knew not what we did. If, say they, you have any business at the other end of the roonij why do you not stay there; if not, why do you go thither; why always stalking backwards and forwards ?" — A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, by Captain Daniel Beeckman, page 41.
 * " They are always in a sitting posture, either in their