and stand about in some
main thoroughfares
as a trader or
When they meet a stranger from
some foreign port, who has
arrived in the Colony, they
claim
to be men
of
the
same Village
or
the same clan and induce
or worse, drag him and ruthlessly rob him. For a lonely traveller who has returned from afar to meet such cruel treatment
as
this, is truly pitiable !
With regard to this evil it is
of
the greatest
moment that
orders should be
given
to the
police to carefully watch and
report all suspicious
characters.
8. Keepers of swindling dens, if they succeed in capturing
a big prize, divide the booty and then make off. The person who has been plundered knows that it is impossible to
recover what has been plundered from him and that
if
he
petitions the Government to order the police to make enquiries, it will also be impossible to effect an arrest.
Those who have not been...