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MALAY WOMEN. treatment, are gentle, kind, grateful, docile, and faithful; capable of the warmest attachment, and yet impelled to madness and the commission of the most revolting deeds by real or imaginary unkindness. They are dutiful children and fond parents. They treat their aged kinsmen with the greatest kindness, and even feel it a duty to relieve the wants of an indigent relation. Old men and women are always treated with respect.—Balfour.