146 DEATH OF PANGERAN USOP. [1846. 



Fairy ", as if bearing a charmed life, happened to alight at 

 good ball range ; the temptation was too strong : I fired, 

 and, fortunately perhaps for the termination of the evening, 

 the ball took effect. Our suspicious friends took the hint, 

 bade us good night, and hoped to see us in the morning. 

 On the day following I was attended by the two cutters, 

 with their guns. Traffic for poultry, eggs, goats, &c., 

 went on fairly, but the prices for bullocks, agreed on the 

 previous evening, were very materially increased. We 

 therefore purchased less than intended, which displeased 

 the Kadyans. 



The party on this river, are said to be neutral as to 

 the late massacre in Brune. One party being adherents 

 of the Sultan of Borneo, the other, relatives of the Sultan 

 of Tampassook. It was at this river, that Budduruddin 

 (the half-brother of the Rajah Muda liassim) overtook 

 Pangeran Usop, and under an official warrant from the 

 Sultan put him to death. This, it is stated, was the bond 

 fide cause of the slaughter, which ensued, of the ten bro- 

 thers of that party. They were civil to us, so long as 

 our boat force was assembled, but I was informed, much 

 inclined to give trouble after I quitted the beach. The 

 people of the Kimanis assured us that we should find 

 no more good men between them and Brune, " that they 

 were, principally, bad Bajows." 



I have mixed much with all parties with whom I could 

 do so without foolhardiness. The Malays, invariably, 

 describe all the mountain races, as well as the Bajows, 

 "bad and dangerous people." The same character is 

 given of the Malays by their opponents, and, pro- 

 bably, as respects themselves, with some justice. But 



