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ployed by Chinese merchants to fish for them, and, it is 

 said that these cunning traders invariably contrive to keep 

 these poor people in debt, so as to secure their continued 

 services, and that so scrupulously honest are they, that 

 though nothing could detain them, they are never known 

 to leave a place to evade their creditors. 



We have now mentioned the greater part of the 

 inhabitants of the large, rich, and beautiful island of 

 Borneo; but, from our little communication with it, 

 this is all that can at present be done. The Kyans, 

 those numerous and interesting people, have never yet 

 been visited by Europeans ; and though the Malay 

 Chief of Serekei will throw every obstacle in their way, 

 in the ascent of the Rejang river to the country of 

 Rajah Nipah, before described, it will not be long 

 after the new settlement shall be formed, before this 

 powerful tribe is in communication with it ; Rajah 

 Nipah having frequently intimated his wish to visit 

 Sarawak, or that Mr. Brooke should send some one 

 to visit him. This information has been frequently 

 communicated to us by natives of Serekei, who are 

 constantly in the habit of trading with the Kyans, 

 and who further informed us what we very well 

 knew that the Patingi Abdulrahman in every way 

 discouraged such intentions on the part of the Kyan 

 chieftain. 



Other openings for British enterprise, and which 

 are free from Malayan influence, exist in the facilities 

 of communication presented with the Kyan countries 

 by the livers Bintulu and Barram, which have hitherto 



