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The Amok of the Malays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Gilmore Ellis
W. Gilmore Ellis*
Affiliation:
Government Asylum, Singapore
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We are all of us familiar with the expression “to run amuck,” but perhaps comparatively few of us are familiar with the significance of the term in the Eastern Archipelago. Amuck, or, as it is properly spelt Amok, is a Malay word, and means a furious assault, its derivatives, Mengamok and Pengamok respectively, meaning to commit a furious assault and the person who runs Amok.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 39 , Issue 166 , July 1893 , pp. 325 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1893 

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