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himself, I feel the Government are particularly in- 

 debted for his great personal sacrifices ; indeed, I wish 

 most sincerely that he may recover the sum of six 

 hundred dollars for which he made himself liable, on 

 account of the Lascars. Independent of this, his entire 

 time was engrossed during our detention, and his 

 mercantile pursuits much damaged by the prosecution 

 against Si-Dawut, to whom he had made extensive 

 advances. To myself, personally, I feel that his ser- 

 vices were most kind and disinterested, and at my night 

 conferences with the Sultan and Chiefs, divested of 

 ceremony (and also of jackets), without his powerful 

 assistance and interpretation, my objects, which, as it 

 was impossible to have conversed about them in public 

 meetings, could not have been explained, and therefore 

 would not have been achieved. 



Numerous friendly questions relating to their general 

 conduct; the altered state of affairs in Borneo ; the deter- 

 mination of European Powers to suppress piracy, as well 

 as slavery; and the punishment which had already ensued, 

 and would certainly fall upon those who continued such 

 practices, aided or abetted the actors, or even admitted 

 them into their ports, were all gravely discussed ; and I 

 feel persuaded that more moral good was effected 

 amongst the leading powers by this mode of argument, 

 than would have been by more violent measures, what- 

 ever force might attend them. 



On the 25th of February, we bid farewell to our Sooloo 

 friends, and experiencing very light airs had not pro- 

 gressed further than the island of Salleolookit, on the 

 morning of the 27th : and as the result of our Magnetic 



