The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarāwak, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1846 - 237 pages |
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The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of ..., Volume 2 Sir Henry Keppel,Sir James Brooke Affichage du livre entier - 1846 |
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of ..., Volume 2 Sir Henry Keppel,Sir James Brooke Affichage du livre entier - 1846 |
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of ..., Volume 2 Sir Henry Keppel,Sir James Brooke,James (Rajah of Sarawak) Affichage du livre entier - 1846 |
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acquainted anchored Archipelago arrival attack Balambangan bank birds-nests boats Borneo Proper British Brooke Brooke's Bruni Budrudeen Captain Keppel chiefs China Chinese cloth coast of Borneo command commerce crew cutter Datu Dayers Dido Dido's Dutch Dyaks Edward Belcher enemy English European expedition fire force forts gallant guns head Henry Keppel Honourable Illanun India inhabitants interior island Jolly Bachelor jungle Kayans Labuan land Landa Lieutenant likewise Lupar Majesty Majesty's ship Malacca Malay ment miles Muda Hassim native Netherland night Pangeran party Patingi Patusen petty officer Phlegethon piculs pikuls pinnace piracy pirates plenipotentiaries plunder Pontiana ports possession prahus present Pulo Raja Rajah river Sakarran Sambas Sambas river sampan Sarawak Sarebus seamen Seriff Houseman Seriff Jaffer Seriff Sahib settlement shore Singapore spears steamer Sukadana Sulo Sultan Tanjong Tawi Tawi tion town trade treaty tribes Usop vessels volume whilst whole wounded
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Page lxviii - Canning, a member of his said majesty's most honourable privy council, a member of parliament, and his said majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs; and the right hon.
Page 131 - The feeling of the Malay, fostered by education, is acute, and his passions are roused if shame be put upon him ; indeed, this dread of shame amounts to a disease ; and the evil is, that it has taken a wrong direction, the dread of shame being more of exposure or abuse, than shame or contrition* for any offence.
Page lxx - It is agreed that orders shall be given by the two Governments to their officers and agents in the East, not to form any new settlement on any of the islands in the Eastern seas, without previous authority from their respective Governments in Europe.
Page lxxv - ... which their situation was much improved. The system of forced cultivation and delivery of pepper was abolished; encouragement was given to the cultivation of rice; the relations between the cultivating classes and the chiefs of the districts were adjusted ; the property in the soil was recognized in those chiefs; and all interference in the detailed management of the interior was withdrawn, by removing the European residents from the out-stations, and substituting in. their room native officers.:...
Page 183 - ... Malays could readily gather a large force of sea Dyaks from Sakarran, who were readily attracted by hope of plunder, and who, supported by the fire-arms of their allies, were certain to overcome any single tribe that held out. The misfortunes of the Dyaks of Sarawak did not stop here. Antimony ore was discovered ; the cupidity of the Borneons was roused ; then Pangerans struggled for the prize; intrigues and dissensions ensued; and the inhabitants of Sarawak in turn felt the very evil they had...
Page 171 - I turn to the inhabitants, and I feel sure that in describing their sufferings and miseries I shall command the interest and sympathy of every person of humanity, and that the claims of the virtuous and most unhappy Dyaks will meet with the same attention as those of the African. And these claims have the advantage, that much good may be done without the vast expenditure of lives and money which the exertions on the African coast yearly demand, and that the people would readily appreciate the good...
Page 186 - is mild and tractable, hospitable when he is well used, grateful for kindness, industrious, honest, and simple ; neither treacherous nor cunning, and so truthful that the word of one of them might safely be taken before the oath of half a dozen Borneans. In their dealings they are very straightforward and correct, and so trustworthy that they rarely attempt, even after a lapse of years, to evade payment of a just debt.
Page xv - Mr. Earl, who had a personal acquaintance with this tribe, and could speak their language, always expressed to me a degree of confidence in their good faith, which must have had some grounds. I may here conclude the first stage of the expedition, during the progress of which the head-quarters will be fixed at Singapore. During some of the intervals I hope to see Manilla, and to acquire a cursory knowledge of the unexplored tract at the southern extremity of Manilla, called, in Norries' general chart,...
Page lxxx - British Plenipotentiaries themselves have described in their last Note, and it only remains for the Undersigned to congratulate themselves on having contributed thereto, and to unite their wishes with those of Their Excellencies, that their respective Agents in their Asiatic Possessions, may ever shew themselves sensible of the duties which Two Friendly Nations, animated with truly liberal views, have to fulfil, both with reference to each other, and also towards the Natives whom the course of events...
Page 53 - The other boats soon followed; and while the pinnace kept up a destructive fire on the fort, Mr. D'Aeth, who was the first to land, jumped on shore, with his crew, at the foot of the hill on the top of which the nearest fort stood, and at once rushed for the summit. This mode of warfare — this dashing at once in the very face of their fort — was so novel and incomprehensible to our enemies, that they fled, panic-struck, into the jungle ; and it was with the greatest difficulty that our leading...