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succeeded in prevailing upon the Rajah to 

 spare their lives. 



By this time the Rajah was tired of 

 Sarawak, the government of which was 

 handed over to his valuable associate in the 

 extinction of the civil war. The agreement 

 was drawn out, signed, and sealed, on the 

 24th of September, 1841. 



V 



After many months occupied in the ardu- 

 ous duties of establishing his government, 

 Mr. Brooke, accompanied by Muda Hassim, 

 sailed for Borneo Proper, and had several 

 interviews with the Sultan, by whom at 

 length he was, with all solemnity, confirmed 

 in his government. Everything now went so 

 prosperously in the interior of his territory, 

 that he found he could with safety proceed 

 once more to Singapore. In his journal he 

 observes, " My motives for going are various ; 

 but I hope to do good, to excite interest, and 

 make friends ; and I can find no season like 

 the present for my absence. It is now two 

 years since I left Singapore, ' the boundary 

 of civilization.' I have been out of the civi- 



