LETTER FROM UORNKO,'* 



S07 



murdering tlic men of al] nittions, and capturing women 

 and children ; rendering tlio communication along tJio 

 coast dangerous, and preventing the cidtivatioii of the 

 soil near the sea-shore/' 



What matters itTv-ho "first denounced" such people? 

 Lot Mr. Hume nmga the diagi'ace to Sir James Brooke i 

 let his "merchants" bestow a share of it on jjie, "Things 

 that are not let them make to be, an<J tlungs that are 

 let tliem make not to be," as a Muhij would say. 

 Confessedly, however, the most earnest, though not the 

 fii-sti appeal to England was made by the first Knghsh 

 lUjali of Sarawak. He was qualified above othera to 

 certify how Uirgcly these tribei? have contributed to a 

 scourge, which foreign nations had long before stigma- 

 tised as " THE CALAJkriTY OT THE Arcoipelago I " Twelvo 

 years have passed since Ms appeal came home— not a 

 new thing, but from a new kind of man ; offering 

 remedial suggestions, pure and disinterested, and ready, 

 if it would secure their adoption, " either to givo place to 

 another or to remain liimaelfL" and he was then REtjah 

 of Sarawak. The remetUes be proposed were — not fire 

 and sword, but " the extension of commerce, the propa- 

 gation of Christianity, the amelioration of an innocent 

 and industrious race." And be it repeated tliat all hia 

 suggestions cams recommended by an opinion — too 

 sanguine perhaps for some^ hut coincided in by the most 

 experienced — that the evil, which stood in the way of 

 so nmch good, might be suppressed in a few tnoMlis by 



