 These acts of indiscriminate murder are called mucks, because the perpetrators of them, during their frenzy, continually cry out amok, amok, which signifies kill, kill. When, by swallowing much opium, or by other means, they are raised to a pitch of desperate...  Voyages to the East-Indies - Page 289by Johan Splinter Stavorinus - 1798 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Pinkerton - 1812 - 1030 pages
...thofe who run mucks belong to that nation. Thefe afts of indifcriminate murder, are called by us mucks, becaufe the perpetrators of them, during their frenzy,...knife, or other weapon in their hand, and kill, without diftinftion of fex, rank, or age, whoever they meet in the ftreets of Batavia ; and proceed in this... | |
 | John Joseph Stockdale - 1812 - 420 pages
...who run mucks belong to that nation. These acts of indiscriminate murder are called mucks, because the perpetrators of them, during their frenzy, continually cry out amok, amok, which signifies kill, kill. When, by swallowing much opium, or by other means, they are raised to a pitch... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - 1536 pages
...B. ii. Sat. i. 69. 1768-71.— "These acts of indiscriminate murder are called by us mucks, because the perpetrators of them, during their frenzy, continually cry out amok, amok, which signifies kill, kill. . ." — Stavorinus, i. 291. 1783.— At Bencoolen in this year (1760)— "the... | |
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