Sflfi A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO, 



v-igoroiia measures. If any n&w estimate Sir 3nme& 

 Brooke's sagacity by tlio fact that piracy is uiisuppressed, 

 \vc must first agree as to what are " vigorous measures" 

 But this would touch prematurely on a separate question. 



We liaye now sifted Mr. Earl and Mr. Brooke, from 

 whoso worlvs albeit the uncandid and the perverse may 

 detach passsages to give a colouring to iltcir views, 

 common sense will decide thus much, — that there are 

 Dyaks wild as well as mild, — wild even beyond wild feats 

 in craiiiology : exercising a destructive vigilance over the 

 commerce of a vast expanse of ocean and extent of shore, 

 which, througli a want of coimteractiiig vigilance, has 

 become their empire and their Iiome- Such is tho evi- 

 dence of Mn Hume's two i^Himpeachablc witnesses. With 

 no veiy high ophiion of tho one aa a Eajah, he hisists on 

 quoting, him as a writer : therefore so may we. The 

 other gentleman is eqtmlhj an authority ; he ia at this 

 time an able contributor to colonial literature, and aji 

 ornaracTit to the society of Sincapore, How eo\;ld the 

 honouralile member cite two such men, and not know that 

 they would instruct where they were meant to bamhoozle, 

 and clear what tliey were called to mystify ? 



But now, according to hu Law-Dictionary, a "pirate " 

 miiat use a particular kind of boat, and must attack a 

 particular kind of ship— a square-rigged veaseL 



It is scarcely a question for serious argun^eut^ whetlier 

 the shape of a sail, or tho size of a hull should detenmne 

 the cliaracter of a " snlt-water thief/' It is as if a land- 



