The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-14 00:00:00

(Vol. 2, p. 3.)

" Py far the greater part of the labour in the field is perform-
"ed by Slaves, or ehurmar. These are the absolute property
" cf their DevaruS, or Lords ; and may be employed in any
" we7ll that their masters please. They are not-attached to the
" soil, but transferrred in any manner that their masters think
" fit ; only a husband and wife cannot be sold separately, but
" children may be separated from their parkas, and brothers
" from their sisters. These are their modes of transferring the
" usufruct of slaves."' The Author then proceeds at consider-
abla length, and concludes thus—" These two tenures are ut-
" telly abominable, for.the persoia who. exacts • the labour and
" furnishes the subsistence of the slaves, is directly interested
" to increase the. former, and diminish the latter as much as
" passible. Infect, the slaves are very severely treated, and
" their diminutive :stature • and squalid appearance show evi-
" dandy- a want of adequate nourishment. • There-CLUJ be no
" cm' arison between their condition and that of the slaves in
" the 'West India Islandsa except that in Malabar there are a
" sufficient aunibenoLlemales, who are allowed-to marry any.
" paraan of the same cast with themselves, and whose labour. is
" always exacted by their husband's master, .the master of the
" having no authority over her so long as she lives with an-
" other man's. slave. This is a custom that ought to be recom-
" mended to our West India Planters, and, if adopted, I am.
persuaded ifould'aooa Intl-Lice:the negro Women to breed, and
" would give a. suf.ficient supply of innabitanta without having.
" rccourSe. to-our annual importation ficariTAfricarol. 2,-
p. 370 to 372.) .
" When a man's stock of cows is large, they are kept, with
" the labouring aattle, in a house built at some distance, from.
" the abode Of free men, in the place where' the slaves are per-
" mitted to dwell -when the crop' is not '-on the ground ; for
" these poor creatures are considered as too impure to be per-
" anitted to approach the house of their. Divaru or Lord."
(Vol. (Vol. p. 380.)

TAAN APtlaArf.

" At Manapuram a slave, when 30 years old, costs about
" 100 fanams, cr 14s. 7cf. ; with a wife, he costs double;
" Children sell at from 15 to 40 fanams, or from Bs. 2di to
" 21s. 101. A working slave gets daily three-tenths of a poray
"of rough rice, or about 36 bushels a-year. He also gets
" annually 1 fanam for oil ; and 1 h fanam for cloth, which is
" just sufficient to wrap round his waist. If he be active, he
" gets cloth worth two fanams ; and at harvest time, from 5 to
" 6 porays of rough lice. Old people and children get from 1
" two-thirds of the above allowance,, according to the work
'They can perform."—(Vol. 2. p. 406 to 407.)
KERAKUIA-PUailler, }CI DAKUM PURADI, AND POP_AWAY.__

cc There are 4,765 slaves, making the population in all
" 31,017."—(Vol. 2, p. 485.)

NORTH MAL ABAR.
" The yearly allowance hereestablisl,ed fora ga7e is, of rough
" rice to able-bodied men 148 cubical inches, to able-bodied
" women 1034, to old persons and children 741. The average
' will be 18 4-10ths bushels, of which one half is husks."—
(Vol. 2, p. 491.)