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BRITISH BORNEO. 6g 
on account of the Dutch blockade of Achin—Achin having 
been of late years the principal pepper-growing country—the 
natives are again turning their attention to this article. | 
may remark here that the people of Bundu claim and shew 
evidence of Chinese descent, and even set up in their houses 
the little altar and joss which one is accustomed to see in 
Chinamen’s shops. The Brunai Malays call the Chinese Orang 
Kina and evidence of their connection with Borneo is seen in 
such names as Kina-batangan, a river near Sandakan on the 
north-east coast, Azza-balu, the mountain above referred to, 
and Kina-benua, a district in Labuan. They have also left 
their mark in the very superior mode of cultivation and irriga- 
tion of rice fields on some rivers on the north-west coast 
as compared with the primitive mode practised in other 
parts of Northern Borneo. It is now the object of the Govern- 
ments of Sarawak and of British North Borneo to attract 
Chinese to their respective countries by all the means in their 
power. This has, to a considerable extent, been successfully 
achieved by the present Raja BROOKE, and a large area of 
his territory is now under pepper cultivation with a very 
marked influence on the public revenues. This subject will 
be again alluded to when I come to speak of British North 
Borneo. 
It would appear that Brunai was once or twice attacked by 
the Spaniards, the last occasion being in 1645.* It has also 
had the honour in more recent times, of receiving the atten- 
tions of a British naval expedition, which was brought about 
in this wise. Sir JAMES, then Mr. BROOKE, had first visited 
Sarawak in 1839 and found the district in rebellion against 
its ruler, a Brunai Raja named MuDA Hassim, who, being 
a friend to the English, received Mr. BROOKE with cordiality. 
Mr. BROOKE returned to Sarawak in the following year and 
this time assisted MUDA HASSIM to put down the rebellion 
and finally, on the 24th September, 1841, the Malay Raja 
* Captain RoDNEY MuNpy, R.N., states that in 1846 he captured at Brunai 
ten large Spanish brass guns, the longest being 14 feet 6 inches, cast in the 
time of CHARLES III of Spain and the most beautiful specimens of workman- 
ship he had ever seen. CHARLES III reigned between 1759 and 1788. 
