This he usually does by flinging a burning faggot at the offender, or by discharging an arrow at him, though more frequently near him.

Meanwhile all others who may be present are apt to beat a speedy retreat, carrying off as much of their property as their haste will allow, and remaining hid in the jungle until sufficient time has elapsed for the quarrel to have blown over.

Sometimes, however, friends interpose, and seek to deprive the disputants of their weapons.

Should, however, one of them kill the other, nothing is necessarily said or done to him by the rest.
Yet conscience makes cowards of us all; so that the murderer, from prudential motives, will not uncommonly absent himself until he judges that the indignation of the victim's friends has sufficiently abated.
Now here we seem to find want of social structure and want of law going together as cause and effect.

The "friends" of whom we hear need to be organized into a police force.