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English government through Captain C. Drinkwater 

 Bethune, R.N. C.B. The whole of the property for 

 which this man murdered eleven of his relatives could 

 not have exceeded the value of a few hundred dollars ; 

 the rajahs during their absence, while attempting to 

 quell the insurrection of Sarawak, having been de- 

 spoiled of the revenues of their estates by the sultan 

 and the Pafigeran Usuf, then his prime minister. 



He has been happily described by a person who 

 saw him and knew him in Borneo, as possessing the 

 " head of an idiot, and the heart of a pirate." He 

 has frequently said, that provided he be supplied with 

 money, and his harem be filled with women, he does 

 not care who governs the country, or in what manner 

 it is done. 



The two men who are called by the sultan his 

 sons, Pafigeran Hassim and his brother, are the 

 well-known offspring of two Bornean nakodahs, or 

 merchants, introduced to the harem by the sultan 

 himself, nature having fortunately denied this im- 

 becile the power of propagating his like. Neither 

 Pafigeran Hassim nor his brother have had at any 

 time thoughts of being successful in any attempts to 

 succeed the sultan, though it had been the declared 

 intention of Pafigeran Usuf, who was driven from 

 Borneo by the admiral, in 1845, for having detained 

 slaves, and for having fired at the admiral's own ship, 

 and who was afterwards killed by the Pafigeran Bed-er- 

 ed-din, at Kimanis, in the event of the sultan's death 

 to endeavour to place himself on the throne. Since 



