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the Sultan and his suite coming down to the beach to 

 witness this operation, as well as the exhibition of some 

 Congreve rockets, an engine of war totally unknown to 

 them. Our good luck on such occasions was not 

 wanting ; the second rocket fired, entered a large dead 

 tree at about eight hundred yards distance, and setting 

 it on fire, astonished them greatly. On our return to 

 the Palace the Sultan informed me that the remaining 

 twelve Lascars were probably still at Bulungan, I there- 

 fore requested his assistance in their recovery, which he 

 most promptly acceded to, ordering his Admiral, or 

 chief naval Officer, a near relative, and also a Hadji, 

 to prepare a prahu immediately and accompany us, 

 although at war with that Sultan as well as with the 

 Rajah Muda, at Sambiliong, all resulting from disputes 

 about the ' Premier ' and her people. 



Taking temporary leave of our friends, the Sultan and 

 Prime Minister, and accompanied by his prahu, com- 

 manded by Tuan Hadji, we dropped down to the ship, 

 and shortly moved to the mouth of the Pantai river. 

 The spring tides were now on, and by keeping an E.S.E. 

 course, or the opposite to that by which we had entered, 

 we reached the sea about midnight. Here we hove to, 

 hoisted our boats up, and placed the prahu, a boat of 

 forty-three feet in length, upon our decks, which much 

 astonished the Malays, as well as some of our own esta- 

 blishment. About noon we passed the reef on which the 

 wreck of the ' Premier ' was noticed, and about 4, P.M., 

 dropped our anchor in four fathoms, about four miles off 

 the entrance of the Sabanoon, one of the mouths of the 

 Bulungan. About 5 o'clock, the boats being duly 



