A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 - Baring-Gould Sabine

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Afterwards Admiral of the Fleet. He died, January 1904.

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The Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies in a rescript, dated January 23, 1846, acknowledged that the exertions during the past twenty-five years effectually to suppress piracy on the coasts of Borneo had not been successful for want of combination, and for having been limited to the western coast.

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A Collection of Voyages, 1729.

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Sulu was the principal market for the disposal of captives and plunder.

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A son of Captain Francis Light, who founded Penang in 1786, was named Lanoon, he having been born on the island at the time it was being blockaded by Lanun pirates.

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Dayak war-boats, some having as many as 75 to the crew.

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Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido, 1847.

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On behalf of the Sultan, Saribas and Sekrang being beyond Rajah Brooke's jurisdiction.

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Keppel, op. cit.

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These Sea-Dayaks, together with those of the Undup, also an affluent of the Batang Lupar, subsequently became the mainstay of the Government against the Saribas and Sekrangs.

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Life of Sir James Brooke, p. 84.

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Sir Edward's report upon Sarawak appears to have been favourable; he pronounced the coal at Bruni, which he never examined, to be unworkable, and the Sultan to be a savage.

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Pronounced by the natives Achi.

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More correctly Putusan, or Pemutus. We retain the old spelling.

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These guns realised £900 at public auction in Singapore.

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The Patinggi was always ready and ever to the fore where tough work and hard knocks were going, and he was the guiding and leading spirit in such expeditions as was this. "Three fingered Jack" the Dido's crew had dubbed him, having that strong regard for him that brave men bear towards another though his skin be of a different complexion – for he had lost two fingers in a former encounter. The type has since changed, and the courtly, intrepid, and determined fighting Malay chief has gone – and he is missed. "I sigh for some of the old hands that could not read or write, but could work, and had more sound wisdom in their little fingers than many popinjay gentlemen of the present day carry in their heads," so wrote the present Rajah ten years ago.

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Mr. George Steward, formerly of the H.E.I.C.'s maritime service, had been sent out by the Rajah's agent, Mr. Wise, on a trading venture. He joined the expedition as a volunteer, and had concealed himself in Patinggi Ali's boat, where he should not have been.

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Keppel, op. cit. We have taken our account of the expedition up the Batang Lupar mainly from Keppel's narrative, the only original history of these operations hitherto published.

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He was afterwards pardoned and permitted to reside at Sekrang town, where he died.

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Labuan, however, proved a failure as a trading centre, and in that respect has taken a very secondary position to Kuching.

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Journals, Keppel, op. cit.

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The pirates and their supporters, however, preyed upon Islams as well as infidels, and religion was a dead letter to them in this respect. Quite contrary to the tenets of their faith, true believers who were captured were sold into slavery.

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