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astonished.' The same Chief, Tenteng, attempted to do 

 at Zamboanga as he had done at Balambangan, but a 

 slave, named Reyes, disclosed the project to Bayot, and 

 by this means frustrated his design, and he was unable 

 to surprize the garrison. His designs being thwarted, 

 he crossed to the Island of Zebu, where he committed a 

 number of piracies." 



As all this narrative relates particularly to our former 

 privileges on the northern coast of Borneo, and our inde- 

 pendent right to maintain our territories in that region, 

 either increased by new Treaties, or continuing those 

 which were executed of old, I think that my readers 

 will excuse the digression from the main points of 

 our own immediate voyage, particularly as the Sultan 

 of Sooloo, has been pleased to admit England as " her 

 old and staunch Ally." Indeed, it is probable that by 

 the very act of forgiveness, mentioned by this Spanish 

 writer (not evidently a friend of England), they became 

 by gratitude more distinctly connected. The object of 

 the work in question has evidently been directed to the 

 assertion of the Spanish claim on the entire Sooloo Ter- 

 ritory, including our undoubted position on Balambangan. 

 I am, therefore, tempted to add a few further extracts 

 from Dalrymple, who, in concluding his ' Essay on Sooloo/ 

 observes : 



" The chief object of this Essay is to evince the Sooloo 

 Independency, to which these historical anecdotes are only 

 an introduction ; and for this reason it has been thought 

 expedient to make a separation of the ancient and modern 

 history ; refering to the former all incidents which 



