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CHAPTER VIII. 



ILLANON PIRATES AND SOOLOO TERRITORY. 



History of the Illanon pirates Established in a spacious lagoon with 

 a Chief of their own Ingenious ways of escape Their mode of 

 construction The Illanon vessels Range of piratical incursions 

 Mode of eluding the Spanish forces The Ballignini pirates 

 Court of Sooloo Notes from Oriental Repertory of Dalrymple 

 Sooloo group of Islands Toolyan Tawee-Tawee Bangene 

 Palawan Tiroon River Barow Sicatack Siboccoo Maratua 

 Spanish account of the origin of the friendship between the British 

 and Sultan of Sooloo and occupation o'f Balambangan by the 

 English Instructions upon these matters from Madrid Pro- 

 ceeding of Governor of Samboangan English attacked and ex- 

 pelled from Balambangan Summary of the English privileges on 

 northern coast of Borneo Dalrymples's account of the Sooloo 

 independency. 



THE following particulars relative to the history of the 

 pirates infesting these seas, and known under the names 

 of Illanon, or Lanoon, and Ballignini pirates, has been 

 drawn up from information obtained from Officers com- 

 manding the Spanish gun boats, and employed for their 

 suppression, and particularly from conversations with my 



