19S A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO- 



Muatly's inadvertent variation, and there is an end of 

 an arpiment, to which Mr. Hume eyeu yet clings with 

 the tenacity characteristic of a weak cause and of himself. 



Sir James Brooke's manu- 

 script runs thus : — 



" The Laiid IHaks are inferior 

 to iliQse of tlie coast, tke^ arc 

 darker tliaji the Strehas, Tke^ 

 are by no mcBUs so warlike iis 

 the othera ; andj from tliuir great 

 ilrc-ad of fireannsj may he kept 

 in aubjcc^tiou by corapanitively a 

 small body of Malaya/' 



Captain Muudy a para- 

 graph thtts :■ — 



The Serehm tux^ by no mcfiiis 

 so warlike iis the others ; and, 

 frojii their great dread of fire- 

 urmSj msiy b« kept in aubjectioti 

 by conipjxrativcly a small body of 

 Mtdays/' YoL I., p, 237. 



Withia two pages of this passage, is one which might 

 have corrected tliis mistake j for at p. 235 we read : They 

 (the Sakarrans) are the most savage of the tribes, the 

 Serebas excepted, and delight in head -hvin ting and pillage." 



As to this ridiculous question of firearms, I have 

 explained, in a former chapter, that these piratical com- 

 munities comprise botli Malays and Dyaks ; that the 

 Malays of Serehm were always particularly well-armed ; 

 and that among the Dyaks, altiiough many had not fire- 

 arms when I^fr, Brooko fii-st wrote of them, yet some Itad: 

 and it is absurd to suppose that a writer could mean to 

 describe a people as bemg afraid to use, or even hear 

 (he sowid of a weapon, which he knew them to be faitiilijir 

 with. In his 'vlettor from Bonico/' ho far back as 1841, 



