QtTESTlOK or rmEARMS. 



Mr< Brooke stateil, in a passage wliicli I sliall presently 

 give at length, that tlie wMwai'like Malays tmplo^/ the 

 Sere^m and Sakmran Df/ah% aided hf; a fimati ]mTii^ 

 loith ^rearmSj io atimk oihei* tribeff!^ This almie 

 would be conclusive againist any argument resting 

 on an isolated and mis-quoted passage : but vvlieii 

 Mr. llumc builds in 1851 upon fonndations of 1S38, he 

 must think tliat the Dyak has lieen a.s unprogressivc aJ3 

 Iximsclf. Hot only did tliey use Hrearms against the boat,^ 

 of the Dido in 1842, but, ever since that time, gims and 

 gimpowder have been the articles wliich they most eagerly 

 pui"chase or plunder. Nor is tliis incompatible \vith a 

 kind of cowardicOj — not however extending, that I know 

 of, to a fear of sound. Many a speech of Mr, Hume's has 

 dispersed the Hoiise of Commons moro effectually than a 

 musket report ever fnghtened the Dyaks, By nieau.? of 

 the free market of Sincapere, the Malays have long known, 

 if not the name, the productions of Birmingham : and it 

 is not Bkcly that such powerful tribes the Sercbas a!id 

 Sakarrans would neglect the musket, after it had been 

 adopted by all their neighboura, and practically introduced 

 to their own notice by our boa.ta' crews. In a Lanuu 

 pirate prahu, taken by the Butch last year, there were 

 sixty-four mmkets neatly arranged on racks, and 

 the cabin had three port-holes, each hristlhig with 

 a lela. 



I have already stated that the war-pralius of the 

 Serehaa Malays are as well appointed oft the Lannm' ; and 



