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attaclied to the expedition, who, thougli they wmt out 

 under pretence of foraging, would, if tliey caught him 

 alone, inevitably take his head. The Rajah, lioweyer, 

 took sucli an interest in Serebas Jack, that he directed a 

 guard of hk Malays to escort him past all danger. 



Some weeks aftenvardSj — when the Serebas chiefs 

 went to Sarawak, to make their submission to the Rajah, 

 — he descried in the crowd among the foUowera of tlie 

 Chief Lmgirc the physiognomy of Sei-ebas Jack, wJio 

 evidently, although ill at easGj had Bome thing to com* 

 municate. After the audience was over, and the chiefs 

 with their followers had departs d, Berebas Jack found his 

 way to the llajah, and with dejected counteuaiice opened 

 the conversation by asking forgiveness for the part he 

 had acted. " Ho had deceived the llajah ; he was not 

 the poor man he liad stated himself to be ; he was a 

 chief, powerftd and rich ; his name was Kabo, and he was 

 a brother-in-law of Lingire," 



After pFomisii^ to alMaiik from such acts for the 

 future, he admitted that he bad been fond of piratical 

 pursiuts : that he had always accompanied the other 

 chiefs when they went in grand ballas, filling up the 

 intervals by a little private business on his own account. 



On the 7th August, the expedition returned from the 

 neighbourhood of Pakuj and made their rendeifvous around 

 the Nemesis, in the Serebas, 



Wlieu the news of the defeat extended to the piratical 

 villi^es up the R^mhas, several captive women, nine of 



