164 A VISIT TO THE INI>IAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



Tlie surviving pirates had thus the satisfaction of 

 providing their chastiaera with the meana of visitbig them 

 at their owu homes, and of easing them of some of their 

 ill-gotten wealth, carrjing it away in the same baiigkongs 

 which liad be on equipped for their own lawless jiurposes. 



In tlijs ascent of the riyerj the small steamer liumei 

 attended by the man-of-war boatSj led the way. Then 

 followed a dense mass of several hundred native boate, 

 eager for plunder — they were with the gi^eatest difficulty 

 kept back ; a rushing tide swept them all up together. 

 In the midjst of the confusion, the branch of a tree 

 canned away the Rame*s funnel. Grounding forward at 

 the same time, she was swept by tlie current act'oas 

 the na,rrow river. The steam was let off ivith the usual 

 noise ; whereupon oiu* native followers, not knowing what 

 the hor n<l creature was going to do, tried in vain to get 

 out of the way, — some jumping into the water,— some 

 into other boats, which they accordingly swamped, — some 

 religioijsly bowing their heads, and resigning themaelvea 

 to Allah,^ — all under a sense of imminent peril ; indeed, 

 the confusion can he better conceived than described. 



As the invading force advanced up the river, they 

 found the usual means resorted to, to check their progress 

 to Paku : trees were feUed, and thrown across the stream; 

 and it was freqnently necessary to land parties on either 

 bank, who could ascend and cut a boat pjtssage through 

 these barriers. 



In one place, nine huge trees had been felled, and one 



