Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.338

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1846.—"On the 8th July, 1846, Sunan, a respectable Malay house-builder in Penang, ran amok . . . killed an old Hindu woman, a Kling, a Chinese boy, and a Kling girl about three years old . . . and wounded two Hindus, three Klings, and two Chinese, of whom only two survived. . . On the trial Sunan declared he did not know what he was about, and persisted in this at the place of execution. . . The amok took place on the 8th, the trial on the 13th, and the execution on the 15th July,—all within 8 days."—*J. Ind. Arch.*, vol. iii. 460-61.