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It is not necessary, as they see and admit wiili satisliK'- 

 tion, that litigants should enter into a pecuniary eoniiti'ti- 

 tion with their opponents to purchase the favour and 

 countenance of their judges. 



" The occasions requiring the employment of armed 

 force are becoming rare^ and disturbances are striclly 

 local. The real power of Sarawak is based upon the 

 remembrance and gratitude due to the late Kaja Sir 

 James Brooke, as well as upon the firm administratinn 

 and even-handed justice of the present government. oS'o 

 one visiting Sarawak can fail to observe the respect and 

 affection in which the present raja and his family are 

 held by the entire community. The fact is as noticeable 

 among Europeans as among the natives ; and I may 

 observe that the European staff is socially on a ])ar witli 

 the officials of the generality of our colonies. The mode 

 of life among the European body is quiet and unostenta- 

 tious, but of hospitality there is abundance, and no A^isitor 

 leaves Sarawak without pleasant reminiscences of his stay." 



This authoritative statement as to the present condi- 

 tion of Sarawak must be highly gratifying to all friends 

 and admirers of the late Sir James Brooke. Under the 

 cautious phraseology of an official report, we cannot f;iil 

 to see the record of a splendid and almost unexampled 

 success in the art of government — a success eff'ected 

 under difficulties far above the average, and to be esti- 

 mated by a. standard far truer than that of commercial 

 development, namely, the happiness and contentment of 

 the entire population. 



Dutch Borneo 



The possessions of the Dutch in Borneo are about 750 

 miles in length from north-east to south-west, and have 



