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further measures as removed all ground for apprehension 

 in that quarter. The Af^ande/.t boats accompanied those 

 o£ Sarawak on this occasion. 



In the Serebas country, also^ active preparations had 

 been for some time going on to fit for sea a formidable 

 piratical balla ; but the unexpected arrival on the coast of 

 BO powerful a ship as the Mcemider^ and the news^ which 

 soon spread to the Serebas, that her boats had already 

 visited the Sadong, operated for the time as a check upon 

 their active measures. No sooner, howeverj did the 

 departure of the Meander leave the Bornean coast 

 without a man-of-war,^ — the steamer of the station being 

 employed in keeping up commimication between Labnan 

 and Sincapore, — than the Serebas pirates resumed those 

 preparations for fresh atrocities, in which they spend all the 

 time not actually taken up in executing evil deeds ah'Cady 

 planned. The absence from Sarawak of the Kajah himself 

 during the four following months facilitiited and encou- 

 raged their prDceedings. It will be remembered that, 

 after a very brief sojourn at Samwak, on hia return from 

 England, he had gone on in the Meander to Labuan (his 

 new seat of Government under tlie British CroTVn). 

 TherB we left him, wiiiie we made another trip to 

 Sincapore ; returning, we took him on a cruise of healthy 

 during which too he made official visits, particularly to 

 the Sultan of Soloo ; after this we brought him back to 

 Labuan, and left him there ; and again visiting Sincapore* 

 we found awaiting us orders to proceed to China. Calling 



