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Their manner of punishing criminals was generally as follows vir. If in fighting, one bruised the other, the same kind of a bruise was made on his flesh. If one scratched the other, he was scratched in a similar manner. If one gouged the other's eye, his eye was gouged: and one knocked out a tooth one of his teeth was knocked out etc. But if one killed the other, he was sometimes killed in a similar manner. But more generally the murderer was taken to the top of a steep and high precipice, and having his elbows tied behind him and his feet drawn up and tied under, was cast off headlong and dashed to pieces on the rocks below. But in case no suitable precipice could be found near, a wall was built up sufficiently high, & the criminal cast off as before. Johnson Pridget.

It is said that a great while ago, Eagles caught little children. Nutsawi

Criminals before a judicatory, had no advocate or lawyer. Their cases were brought forward, and explained by an officer called Ku wo ni go li, said by some to be the same as the priest's right hand man. The criminals then defended their own cause. Nutsawi