168 RESOURCES OF NORTHERN BORNEO. [1846. 



season. Treating of Maludu Bay, and the sources of 

 trade to be derived from that region I have observed 

 p. 124, "That the establishment of a British port or 

 colony on any part of the northern shores of Borneo, 

 will not, I suspect, induce any of the native authorities to 

 send there for sale." This remark is intended to apply 

 to cargoes, or quantities. The small traders will, as 

 remarked to me by Mr. Brooke, creep alongshore, and 

 find their way to the best market. But until the colony 

 is firmly settled, and piracy annihilated on the range of 

 coast by which trade must pass, this state of affairs will be 

 slow of arriving ; and when it does, still, until the habits 

 of the inland tribes become settled, and they plant for, 

 and send to your market, the same scantiness of tonnage 

 must prevail. I must still adhere to. the only feasible 

 plan of inducing trade by sending small craft to the ports 

 in immediate connection with the Brune territory, that is, 

 between Maluda Bay and Labuan, and collect at the in- 

 termediate ports of Tampassook, Ambong, Sulaman, 

 Kabatuan, and Kimanis, what the Kadyan or Dusun 

 will bring to the coast, for we cannot jump to the con- 

 clusion, that the cultivators will turn navigators to get 

 rid of their produce; otherwise, my original evil, the 

 intervention of the Malay or Bugis, comes in to destroy 

 the advantages of direct commerce.* 



My professional brethren will probably take alarm at 



" In connection with the occupation of the new colony of Labuan, 

 it is mentioned that the good effects of that measure are already de- 

 veloping themselves. The communication between Singapore and 

 Brune is now frequent, through the medium of trading vessels, and it 

 is expected that the next annual returns will exhibit a considerable in- 

 crease in commercial operations with that quarter. ' Haw Sago ', it is 



