ORIGIN OF CLUNIES-ROSS FAMILY 11 



and somewhat neglected man, who did so much for English 

 prestige in the Far East. Mr. Raffles was at that time 

 secretary to the Government of Prince of Wales Island, and 

 his friendship had a marked influence on the eventful career 

 of Hare. Not lono- after Hare's meeting with Stamford 

 Raffles, the British expedition against Java was planned ; and 

 Lord Minto selected him to join the force — and no wiser 

 choice could have been made. As a friend of Raffles, Hare 

 joined the expedition and saw that wonderful achievement 

 of Englishmen — an achievement whose fruits were after- 

 wards wasted by English poHticians — the British conquest 

 of Malaya. 



It was as a result of joining this expedition that Hare 

 came to occupy the position in which Ross Primus found him, 

 for when hostilities had ceased, the Sultan of Banjarmassem 

 applied to the British Government to have a British resident 

 attached to his kingdom, and Hare was appointed to the post. 

 The Sultan gave to his new resident a large grant of land, for 

 a great area of his dominions had been depopulated by pirates, 

 and he hoped that a strong British resident, backed by the 

 weight of British authority, would restore order and prosperity 

 to his much-harassed people. But Hare was by no means a 

 strong man, and at the outset he made a very bad step by 

 choosing for his second in conunand a very ill-famed person 

 named Vanderwadl. Vanderwadl was a Dutch adventurer of 

 a very degraded type who was condemned to death for his 

 crimes by the great Commander Daendels, and by an 

 extraordinary coincidence was saved on the eve of his 

 execution by the capture of Fort Cornelis by the British. 

 Vanderwadl, saved from the gallows at the hands of his own 

 countrymen, was chosen by Hare to act as his deputy, and in 

 this choice there seems to have been little to recommend the 

 candidate, save that his tastes and his mode of living 

 coincided with the ideals of Hare. 



Good results were not to be expected from the adminis- 

 trations of two such persons as Hare and Vanderwadl, and 

 the result was not a happy one. They obtained convicts to 



