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with their hunting dogs, to seek deer and wild hogs. The 

 dogs used for these purposes are a very diminutive species 

 terrier, not so large as the Scotch otter dogs, but they 

 are very noisy, and manage to track the wild hog and 

 confuse him, until he falls under the spear of the Dyak. 

 My pursuits led me to other work, but on the return of the 

 party to our boats, after sunset, they brought several 

 wild hogs, on which our boat's crews had no disinclination 

 to sup, added to quantities of fine oysters, which were 

 procured in great profusion from the rocks, bared by low 

 water, on the Island of Sampadien, where our bivouac 

 was pitched for the night. On our return to the ship, 

 the day following, my friends, Keppel and Brooke, 

 returned to Kuching, the former to make preparations 

 for the return of the ' Dido ' to Singapore. Before 

 parting, we had many discussions upon the present 

 and future prospects of this settlement rising in the 

 scale of importance. Mr. Brooke seemed to be strongly 

 impressed with the expediency of removing the Rajah 

 Muda Hassim, with his thirteen brothers, to Borneo 

 Proper. They were considered as at present a dead clog 

 on the advancement of the Dyak interests ; and although 

 the Rajah Muda, and one or two of his brothers, might 

 feel disposed to further the views of Mr. Brooke re- 

 specting them, still there existed that latent feeling, on 

 the part of the Malay, to consider the Dyak subservient 

 to his purposes, and to oppress him by petty and 

 troublesome inflictions. So long as this existed, Malay 

 Pangerans, relatives of the Sultan of Brunai, remained at 

 Kuching, the Dyak tribes would continue to doubt the 

 power of Mr. Brooke to control them. It was from such 



