276 BANGENE. [1845. 



prahu which accompanied us to Curan, describe these 

 people as being of the worst description of pirates, seldom 

 affording quarter, and feared by all the surrounding 

 islands. They allow that they possess excellent harbours, 

 but the musquitoes are a perfect plague. 



" The Sunken Island, Apo Lamboo, (Sooloo Group,) 

 within the memory of man, was above water, but is now, 

 where shoalest, four fathom under the surface. It had 

 a Lake three fathoms deep in the middle, without any 

 entrance through the bank of sand which surrounded it, 

 and was covered with trees. A hard storm overwhelmed 

 the island, the trees, which are all dead, being still visible 

 under water." 



Bang ene. The residence of the present Balligfiini 

 Pirates has not been described, as, in the period at which 

 Dalrymple wrote, it is probable that what are now termed 

 piratical actions, were merely considered as the lawful 

 pursuits of that race, and confined to vessels and people 

 of their own colour and neighbourhood, with occasional 

 skirmishes with the Spaniards, with whom we find them 

 at war. No such concealment, as that now required, was 

 then necessary ; they found a welcome reception at 

 Sooloo, and were doubtless deemed the naval heroes of 

 that Archipelago. 



The name of our friend Budduruddin, of Sarawak, but 

 latterly of Borneo, has been spelt in various ways, some- 

 times, Bedruddin, Badruddin, and Buddur-uddin, the 

 latter being, I believe, the most aristocratic. But as he 

 was the issue of one of the Sooloo Princesses, and we find 

 the Sultan residing (temporarily, perhaps,) in Tawee- 

 Tawee, called Badarodin, this latter, if correctly given by 



