The late Mr. WITTI, one of the first officers of the Association, at my request, drew up, in 1881, an interesting report on the system of Slavery in force in the Tampassuk District, on the West Coast, of which the following is a brief summary. Slaves in this district are divided into two classes--those who are slaves in a strict and rigorous sense, and those whose servitude is of a light description. The latter are known as _anak mas_, and are the children of a slave mother by a free man other than her master. If a female, she is the slave or _anak mas_ of her mother's master, but cannot be sold by him; if a boy, he is practically free, cannot be sold and, if he does not care to stay with his master, can move about and earn his own living, not sharing his earnings with his master, as is the case in some other districts. In case of actual need, however, his master can call upon him for his services. If an _anak mas_ girl marries a freeman, she at once becomes a free woman, but a _brihan_, or marriage gift, of from two to two and a half pikuls of brass gun--valued at $20 to $25 a pikul is payable by the bridegroom to the master. If she marry a slave, she remains an _anak mas_, but such cases are very rare and only take place when the husband is in a condition to pay a suitable _brihan_ to the owner. If an ordinary slave woman becomes _enceinte_ by her owner, she and her offspring are henceforth free and, she may remain as one of her late master's wives. But the jealousy of the inmates of the harem often causes abortion to be procured. The slaves, as a rule, have quite an easy time of it, living with and, as their masters, sharing the food of the family and being supplied with tobacco, betel-nut and other native luxuries. There is no difference between them and free men in the matter of dress, and in the arms which all carry, and the mere fact that they are allowed to wear arms is pretty conclusive evidence of their not being bullied or oppressed. They assist in domestic duties and in the operations of harvest and trading and so forth, but there is no such institution as a slave-gang, working under task masters, a picture which is generally present to the Englishman's mind when he hears of the existence of slavery. The slave gang was an institution of the white slave-owner. Slave couples, provided they support themselves, are allowed to set up house and cultivate a patch of land. For such minor offences as laziness and attempting to escape, the master can punish his slaves with strokes of the rattan, but if an owner receives grave provocation and kills his slave, the matter will probably not be taken notice of by the elders of the village. An incorrigible slave is sometimes punished by being sold out of the district.