Chap. VIII. Gifts 369.— private id.— From governors of Provinces, 370.— Foreign States. Tribute, gold and silver flowers, mode of receiving Ambassadors, 371.
Chap. IX. Marriage, 372.— Polygamy, age of marriage, id.— Preliminaries, feasts and games, the ceremony, 373.— Bali Formulæ repeated 374.— Character of Siamese wives, 375.— Position and habits of Women in Siam, 386.— Chapters relating to women in the P,hra Sara samkra, 377.— Reciprocal duties of husband and wife from the Meeleenthara, ib.
Chap. X. The parental authority, and obligations of the various members of a family to each other, 379.— Training, education, 379-382.— Etiquette, 381.— education of females, 382.
Chap. XI. Slavery, 384.— Condition of slaves, ib.
Chap. XII, Interest for money, 300— Deposits ib.— Cham nam or pledges, 391.— Wages, 392.— Copartnership, ib.— Sales, ib.— Contracts, 393.— Ceremonies and oath on entering into secrect compacts for desperate purposes, ib.
Chap. XIII. Tattang or administration of Justice, 394.— Tatsamo-an, of Judges and their corrupt practises, ib.— Mode of procedure, 396-7.— Courts of Judicature, 398.— Different orders of law officers; 399-401.— Justiciary forms, 401.— Expences of process, 403.
Chap. XIV. Criminal law, 404.— Tortures, 405.— Evidence, proof by ordeal, 405.— Classes of persons excluded from being witnesses and reasons of exclusion, 407~14.— Oath taken by witnesses, 414-15.
Chap. XV. Of specific crimes and their punishments, 416.— Modes of punishment, ib.— Murder, ib.— Inquests, 417.— The tongok for securing prisoners, id.— Instruments of torture, 418.— Theft, id.— Police system, 419.— Charms used by thieves, 420.— Assaults, threats to wound, striking parents, 421.
Chap. XVI. Adultery, 422.— Punishment of adulteress, id.— Scale of fines, 423— Separation and divorce, 424.— Elopements, 424-5.
Chap. XVII Prisons, 426.— Killing animals, id.— Prohibitions, ib.— Practice, ib.— Invocation of the spirit before killing, ib.— Manslaughter, 327.— Suicide, ib.— Punishment of presumptive guilt, 428.— Of relatives Of rebels, ib.— Effect of confession, ib.— Amusing judicial case from the Bali, 428-9.
[For many incidental notices of Siamese life, manners, customs, superstitions &c., contained in this paper, see INDEX I. voce Siam.]
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Miscellaneous Notices, Contributions, and Correspondence:
Earthquake in Java, 77.— The Tin Mines of Malacca, letter from L. NEUBRONNER, Esq., ib.— Gutta Percha, Memorandum by Dr. d’ALMEIDA, 78,— Specimens of Coal from Labuan, Pulo Chirmin, Borneo Proper, and Formosa, 78-80.— Specimens of Rocks from Pulo Ladda, Pulo Lankawi and the Mainland of the Peniusula between Kiddah and Junkceylon, 80-81.— Specimens of Gold from Pankallang Bukit, and of Gold and Tin from Gunong in Johore, 81,— Case of Poisoning by Mushrooms, 81-82. Earthquake and eruption in Ternate, 168.— Falling in of a mountain in Timor, ib.— Correspondence, ib.
Malay Pantuns, 150, 924*
INDEX. 431.
I. General Index.
II. Index of Names, and Glossary.
