His Honour, however, appeared to have considerable authority, and it was quite plain that the decision received his approval.
The above penalties were by no means indiscriminately inflicted.

The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tariff to facilitate judicial proceedings.

It costs so many days' labour on the Broom Road to indulge in the pleasures of the calabash; so many fathoms of stone wall to steal a musket; and so on to the end of the catalogue.

The judge being provided with a book in which all these matters are cunningly arranged, the thing is vastly convenient.

For instance: a crime is proved,--say bigamy; turn to letter B--and there you have it.