76 A VISIT TO THE fNHIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



and desperate vocation as to encourage them to persist in 

 it, against our unsj>ariDg and inevitable visitations. 



Of tlie a^bievements of Spain in tliis righteous cause 

 we have fto such detailed pai"ticulars as. Holland lias 

 furnished ua, in the instmetivo compilation of M. De 

 Groot* 



From this I hastily set down a few passages, which may 

 lie at once our shame and our enconmgement ; although, 

 from the occaaional tone of the document, it would appear 

 that the Dutch are not very earnest in desiring our 

 co-operation : commercial jealousy aeema to auggcst to 

 them some counterbalancmg evil : — 



" In the yenr 1826 the Butch force ougtiged in tMs service sdone 

 wasj ttco corvettes, eight hige brigs, live small brigs^ eighteen gum- 

 hoais — <if which the Dutch Admiml reportsj that it has ansaered the 

 eiiil for wlddi it wa$ insfltutedj liaiiTiig scattered as much as possible 

 the flumeious and formidiible pirates, . , , , We arc surromided hy 

 small lalands, ^vhich are so msmy nests of pirates } but our unin- 

 terrupted Qrumuffi have prevented tliem from making descents upon 

 cm: coastSj and carrying off the iii habitants to their haunk aa 

 slaves ; &nd they have sncce^fully piotected tlie coasting trade.^' 



" In order to meet the e^iJa of i)irfley hi the Itidian Archipc^kgo, 

 the Duteli Governor-General equipped a flotilLi of achoonerSj of 

 small draft of water^ which, at fixed periods^ in concert with the 

 ships of the Eoyal and Colonial Navy, undertook expeditions 

 Bgniast the pirates, Evertj year they followed them up evea to 

 their haunts, to make an example of them, to burn their ships, to 

 carry olT their anus, mil to apreail terror and confusion among the 

 pirates themselves." — PiYge 81. 



" We do not well understand," saya an able pamphlet q^noted by 



