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outrages in the Sadoug, and others in various directions, 

 were sure to be followed up unless some preventive 

 measures were taken, the R^ijah sallied forth, on the 25th 

 March, J 843, with the native flotilla, wliich he had, at a 

 considerable expense, prepared for service. The force, on 

 setting out consisted of fifty-five prahua, with a total of 

 1800 men : this was augmented, in tlio course of a few 

 ^J8* by auxiliaries from various rivera on the coast, 

 anxious to make common cause against a common pest 

 until the flotilla amounted to ninety-eight prahus, with 

 about 3200 men. Of these, twenty-four prahus were of 

 Sarawak, manned by 800 Sarawak Malays. Tins portion 

 was entirely equipped and victualled at the expeuce of the 

 lUjab. It may be observed, that the average number of 

 men in the S^uiiwak pralius is sometliing lower than in 

 those of the Serebaa and SaLarran pirates ; the prahus of 

 the latter, though of less tonnage, are of greater she, from 

 overhanging so much at stem and stern, Tho largest 

 Sarawak prahu is of about ten tons. 



The expedition visited every river between Samwak and 

 Sereba^, but had not the good fortune to fall in with the 

 enemy. It was led by four boats of the H.E.I.C, steamer 

 Nefttesis^ under tlie ordei-s of Mr. Goodwin ; w]iile 

 Captain Waliago, with his steamer, guarded the Serebas 

 river. A map of this part of the north-west coast of 

 Borneo is necessary to any reader for whom these move- 

 ments have particular interest. The expedition, entering 

 the Kaluka, ascended at once both the right anti left 



