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merely from the effects of a slight debauch, I prescribed 

 something warm and stomachic, which I had brought 

 with me. Mr. Brooke, who on his first arrival at Sarawak, 

 had an interview with this brother of Muda Hassim, de- 

 scribes him as " a sulky -looking, ill-favoured savage, with 

 a debauched appearance, and wanting in the intelligence 

 of his brother, the Rajah." Muda Mahommed is a very 

 large man, inclined to corpulence, with a sensual coun- 

 tenance, and what gave him a somewhat peculiar appear- 

 ance, was the circumstance of his wearing no handkerchief 

 round his head, and his hair being cut quite short. The 

 " Hall of Audience," as usual in these cases, was crammed 

 with numbers of old, ugly, crafty-looking Malays, all squat- 

 ting on their hams, with their faces turned upon their 

 Chief; but peeping curiously in at the open doors and 

 windows were numerous Dusuns, a wild tribe that inhabit 

 the mountains of the northern parts of the island. The 

 Rajah informed me, with some emotion, of the cruel 

 murder of the noble-minded Budduruddin, and expressed 

 himself in strong terms concerning the character of Pan- 

 geran Usop, and concluded by hoping that Sir Edward 

 Belcher would proceed at once to Brunai, avenge the death 

 of his brother, and destroy the city. He asked me, more- 

 over, if I did not remember his younger brother to whom 

 he presented me, and I recognised him as having formed 

 one of the suite of Muda Hassim. Reposing in pic- 

 turesque attitudes upon the ground, or leaning on their 

 shields, and conversing in little groups around this so- 

 called palace, were some dozen Dusuns, a handsome and 

 prepossessing race of aboriginal Dyaks, whose name im- 



