1846.] DEATH OF MR. WILLIAMSON. 159 



Here we obtained full particulars of the lamentable 

 massacre at Brune. Nor was Sarawak without its loss ; 

 Mr. Williamson, the very talented interpreter of Mr. 

 Brooke, and a great favourite with every one who knew 

 him, had fallen overboard from his canoe at night, at the 

 very steps of Mr. Brooke's landing-place, and sunk to 

 rise no more ! I am satisfied that not even to his own 

 immediate circle at Sarawak, was the intelligence of his 

 loss more painfully felt than to his old friends of the 

 'Samarang/ to whom his acts of kindness during our 

 distress were unremitting. Mr. Brooke's note to me 

 fully bore out the great loss which he sustained ; and the 

 public service on northern Borneo has much to deplore 

 the absence of his abilities : as the medium of communi- 

 cation between the natives and the establishment at 

 Kuching, his death will be much felt. 



Not having seen Mr. Brooke on this occasion I cannot 

 do better than add here the following extract from the 

 Singapore paper, describing the massacre at Brune, as 

 as well Mr. Brooke's present cruize. 



" The following information relative to the barbarities 

 of the Sultan, we believe to have been detailed on oath 

 before Mr. Brooke by one Japper, a native of Brune, and 

 servant of the murdered victim, Pangeran Budduruddin. 

 Japper stated that he was sent by his master on board 

 H.M.S. 'Hazard' to warn Captain Egerton against any 

 treacherous artifice which the Sultan might employ to 

 entice him on shore. For the better understanding of 

 the nature of the intelligence entrusted to Japper, Cap- 

 tain Egerton proceeded with him to Sarawak, where he 

 communicated to Mr. Brooke the murders which he 



