leo A VISIT TO THE INBUN ARCHIPELAG^O. 



of them ; — tlie panie, however, when they found the 

 entrances to the Serebas and Ealuka guarded, was com' 

 plete : cTerybody lost his senses^ and each boat thought 

 only of reaching home : in the confusion he took a hne 

 of his own, and, by various manoeuvres, succeeded in 

 threading his way through the belligerents unscathed* 

 Turning the head of his boat seaward, he was at one 

 moment very near running into the centre of the raan- 

 of*war boats, where Captain Farquhar was in his gig. He 

 then turned towards the steamer, and, cheering liis men, 

 exhorted them to pull tor their lives and on no account 

 to jump overboard. He succeeded in passing in shore 

 of the Nemesis ; and then taking a sweep out to sea, 

 to avoid the Sarawak force imder the Tumaugoiig, aa 

 well as a detachment of Lundu Dyaks, xmder Mn Steel 

 of Sarawak, he effected an entrance in rear of every- 

 thing to the Serebas ; and, his men pulling a^ they 

 had never pulled before, he succeeded in taking tlio 

 ■first account of the disjistcrs suatained by his companions 

 to their anxious families* 



It was determined, in a consultation held on the 

 morning of tlie 1st August, to follow up immediately the 

 heavy blow thus inflicted on piracy, and to show those 

 who had escaped tlmt pnniahment co«Id reach them 

 even in their flistant homes. But before attending 

 Captain Farquhar and the Rajah up the rivers, I ought 

 to mention the simultaneous piratical performances of 

 another portion of thig very halla. They aet so as not 



