TOO BRITISH BORNEO. 
Constables and speared the Sikh Jemmadhar and the Ser- 
geant-Major and a private and then made off for the jungle. 
Captain DE FONTAINE gallantly, but rashly started off in pur- 
suit, before any one could support him. He tripped and fell 
and was so severely wounded by the Bajows, after killing 
three of them with his revolver, that he died a few days after- 
wards at Sandakan. By this time the Sikhs had got their 
rifles and firing on the retreating party killed three and 
wounded two. Assistant Resident LITTLE, who had received 
a spear in his arm, shot his opponent dead with his revolver. 
None of the other villagers took any active part, and conse- 
quently were only punished by the imposition of a fine. 
They subsequently all cleared out of the Company’s territory. 
It was a sad day for the little Colony at Sandakan when Mr. 
WHITEHEAD, a naturalist who happened to be travelling in 
the neighbourhood at the time, brought us the news of the 
melancholy affray, and the wounded Captain DE FONTAINE 
and several Sikhs, to whose comfort and relief he had, at 
much personal inconvenience, attended on the tedious voyage 
in a small steam-launch from the Kawang to the Capital. 
On the East Coast, also , their slave-dealing and kidnapping 
propensities brought the Bajows into unfriendly relations 
with the Government, and their lawlessness culminated in 
their kidnapping several Eraan birds’ nest collectors, whom 
they refused to surrender, and making preparations for resist- 
ing any measures which might be taken to coerce them. As 
these same people had, a short time previously, captured at 
sea some five Dutch subjects, it was deemed that their offen- 
ces brought them within the cognizance of the Naval autho- 
rities, and Captain A. K. HOPE, R.N., at my request, visited 
the district, in 1886,in H. M.S. Zephyr and, finding that 
the people of two of the Bajow villages refused to hold com- 
munication with us, but prepared their boats for action, he 
opened fire on them under the protection of which a party 
of the North Borneo Constabulary landed and destroyed the 
villages, which were quickly deserted, and many of the boats 
which had been used on piratical excursions. Happily, there 
was no loss of life on either side, and a very wholesome and 
useful lesson was given to the pirates without the shedding 
