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occurred in October, 1845. In November the late 

 Mr, Williamson, then Mr. Brooke's secretary, was 

 sent to them accompanied by a considerable force, 

 and having with him the Balow chiefs. They were 

 met at the Malay village, at the junction of the Sakar- 

 ran and Batang Lupar, by Casing, Lirigi, Rantap, 

 Bulan, and other chiefs of Sakarran, and a treaty of 

 peace was agreed upon, a pig being killed, as is their 

 custom. This, however, was not long observed. In 

 March, 1846, a large fleet, led by Bulan, the war- 

 chief of Sakarran, attacked the village of the Balow 

 Dyaks, and killed thirty -five persons, though they had 

 some Malays in the place, and one or two small guns, 

 which were taken. The success which attended this 

 expedition was on account of their having surprised 

 the village when the men were all absent at the farms. 

 During the past season, the Sambas and Sakarran 

 Dyaks attacked one of the kampongs of Kalkeka, the 

 next considerable river eastward from Sarebas, and in 

 the government of the Dattu Patengi Abdulraham, of 

 Serekei, who, however, assisted by a force of the Kyans 

 who inhabit the interior of his country, so amply 

 retaliated, that upwards of fifty of the people of Sare- 

 bas were killed or taken captive. 



On another recent occasion the son of the old Orang 

 Kaya Pa Mancha, the principal chief of Sarebas, was 

 slain by our Dyaks, who accompanied a fleet in search 

 of these pirates, and this has given them another 

 opportunity of swearing to possess themselves of the 



