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territory. At this visit, the Phlegethon was moored 

 in the main street of Brunai, and saluted the Sultan, 

 at which period the original Document, wherein the 

 Sultan offered to cede to Her Majesty the Island of 

 Labuan, was received and transmitted by the Author to 

 Government. Our search for the supposed female cap- 

 tive proving unsuccessful, the Samarang proceeded to 

 Manila, where, hearing of the distress and captivity of 

 the crew of the British barque, Premier, on the coast of 

 Borneo, we returned to Sooloo, and, aided by the Sultan 

 of that place, who sent his Ambassador, succeeded in 

 liberating all who remained, and completed Treaties of 

 Friendship with the Sultans of Gunung Taboor and 

 Bulungan. The Samarang then revisited Sooloo, Manila, 

 and Hong-Kong, with the Bashees, Me'ia-co-shimahs, 

 Loo-Choo, Quelpart, Korea, and Japan, where we were 

 most kindly received ; returned to Loo-Choo, and Hong- 

 Kong; thence to Manila and the Mindoro Seas, to 

 Mindanao, crossed to our old possession of Balam- 

 bangan, and carried out the complete Survey from that 

 Island to Labuan, revisiting Sarawak and Singapore, 

 where orders awaited us for England; and calling at 

 Anjer (Java), the Keeling Islands, Cargados-Garajos, 

 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and Ascen- 

 sion, we arrived at Spithead after an absence of nearly 

 four years. 



