178 TAKE LEAVE OF MR. BROOKE. [1846. 



Zealand Association contemplate the protection of the 

 natives by the acquisition of their territory, whilst we ad- 

 mire this torrent of devotional and philosophical exertion, 

 we cannot help deploring that the zeal and attention of 

 the leaders of these charitable crusades have never been 

 directed to the countries under consideration. These 

 unhappy countries have failed to rouse attention or excite 

 commiseration, and as they sink lower and lower they 

 afford a striking proof how civilization may be crushed, 

 and how the fairest and richest lands under the sun may 

 become degraded and brutalized by a continuous course 

 of oppression and misrule. It is under these circum- 

 stances I have considered that individual exertions may 

 be usefully applied to rouse the zeal of slumbering phi- 

 lanthropy, and lead the way to an increased knowledge 

 of the Indian Archipelago." 



These were the remarks of Mr. Brooke in 1838. Since 

 that period great and important events, as regards Borneo, 

 have occurred to change these sentiments ; all, and even 

 more than he then contemplated, has gradually been 

 brought to pass, and we have not only to hail, through 

 his agency, and extraordinary tact and perseverance, the 

 British colours, and a British colony planted in Borneo, 

 but also to congratulate him on the thorough success of 

 his long cherished views of the improvement of his Dyak 

 allies, through missionary agency. I now take my leave 

 of Borneo, earnestly wishing Mr. Brooke and his terri- 

 tories (to which I trust Borneo Proper may eventually be 

 added, with the full recognition of this estimable indivi- 

 dual as Sultan) all the success which his most sanguine 

 desires can hope for. 



