TO HIS EXCELLENCY 



JAMES BROOKE, 'ESQ. D.C.L. 



GOVERNOR OP LABUH-AN, 



HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONER IN BORNEO, 



RAJAH OF SARAWAK, ETC. 



MY DEAR MR. BROOKE, 



IN availing myself of your kind permission 

 to dedicate to you the following Work, 

 I discharge with pleasure the duty under 

 which the author of the first Volume pro- 

 fessing to treat of the inhabitants of Sarawak, 

 lies ; and if I am fortunate in securing for it 

 your approbation, I shall consider the time 

 I have devoted to it to have been profitably 

 spent. 



