M«. HUME'S WITNESSES. 



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Tliat Mr. Hume considers this an eifective array, is 

 sseen by his running commenis — such as this : — Thougli 

 mch testinioiiy is home iji tlieir favour, dcftth and destruc- 

 tion hsB been dealt out agaiuat those unofl ending people " 

 {tlie alleged pirates), and by the tone of several letters 

 which liave appeared since the last debate. 



RcvicTviiig his phalanx in tlie above order, sliall see 

 what each is worth. 



1. It is "well known, that Sir James Brooke lent Captaui 

 JIuudj liis manuscript journal Sj as he had previously lent 

 them to myself. Captain Mimdy ptihlishod portions of 

 them ; and in his publication occurs a passage Avhich 

 represents the Smlas as bein;; " by no means warlike 

 mid as having " a great dread of firearms." These last 

 words es]X!cially have been invaluable to Mt: TTume. 



The original journals were written in 1838. We know 

 how readily savages — the Caffrt^ for example— adopt 

 civilixed modes of killing each other ; so that sncli a 

 statement as the above might be literally true when 

 first made J and yet inapphcahle in the course of a few 

 yeai-s. This u in a great measure the case ; but t!iis is 

 not ike nght explanation of tliat discrepancy. Captain 

 Mundj by a simple error of trausci iption makes an obser- 

 vation apply to the Serebas people, which ap|)hed in tiie 

 original mamiscript to an entirely different people — the 

 Land Bi/aks : " these,'' says the author, " are darker 

 than the Serebas ; the?/ are by no means warlike," ice. 

 Let the gennine sentence be seen parallel with Captain 



