ITS A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



Igan, wlio gave many well-sounding assumiicca as to their 

 good iuteutions, iE return for which they rcceivGd much 

 wholesome counsel 



Leaving the steamer^ the hghter part of the flotilla 

 ascended the Kanowit branch, in the direction of the 

 Serehas country. It is thickly populated by the Sakarran 

 and other tribes, who had long assisted in manning the 

 piratical ballas. 



Miiiiy of the Dyak allies liad returned home ; but the 

 native force accompanying the llajali &till consisted of 

 about 2000 men. 



The object being to punish the guUty, particular orders 

 were given to spare all unresisting men ; and on no 

 account were women or children to be molested. These 

 orders wore scrupulously attended to ; and, although 

 there were very few of the attacking party who had not 

 suffered, or who had not on some occasion lost a relation 

 by the hands of the people whose country they were 

 now invading, still no act of cruelty occurred. 



The progress up the Kaiiowit was slow, by reason of 

 the rapidity of th.e stream, and the freshets after the 

 rain j tlie inliabitanta had thus ample time to decamp, 

 but their villages and farm-houses were destroyed. In 

 every house evidence was found of their fondness for 

 human heads ; they met our senses in every stage of 

 what was considered preservation ^ — from the old and 

 dried-up, and therefore less offensive, to the fresh -baked, 

 and therefore very impleasant specimen. 



