14fl A VISIT TO THE INDIAN AHCHIPKLAOa 



ray friend tlie Rajah t€ do it alone ? Jh must have 

 help — utterly to destroy the beast. If Sarawak lops off 

 the heads, England must burn the stumps — or vice versa. 

 They must work together. But I hav^e got up my 

 classical parallel a little further. While tho hero of old 

 was perforin ing \m task, by the help of his friend with 

 the liot poker, jeahtisj/ sent a cra/i to bite his toes I Evcji 

 so is there more than one treacherous, subaqueous tor- 

 mentor at work, nibbling, but not hurting my friend tho 

 Ilajah, J3itiiig his foot— interfering with his fi^ee move- 

 ments in some Rlight degree. But it matters little, while 

 the head remained unimpaired to devise, and the arm to 

 act. Dropping luy Icsaon in Lempriere, I will confidently 

 predict that the Rajah of Saniwak wiU succeed in Im 

 Herculean task ; for he keeps his promiseSj and he lias 

 said with CiCsar — 



** I muat rid the fica of piratw. " 



The next shall he a matter-of-fact chapter, narrating the 

 strongest effort yet made to destroy the Ilydi'n of Screha^. 



