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A VISIT TO THE iNOUN ARCHIPELAGO. 



proceetlings of the pirates had been considerably checked." 

 l^ow British ships hare acted agitiiist the Sesebas and 

 S.\KARRAN hot'des. Ifi tlicreforc, since these operations 

 fewer or no attacks have been made on merchant-vessels, 

 the conclusion m that the former attacks were made by 



But while we have onl}^ inferences to guide us in one 

 direction, simply because there have been no cruizera in 

 our oTvn portion of these seas^ we c^in find facta quite conclu- 

 sive, where vigilance km been exercised, and records kept. 



In De Groot's report, p. 107,* there are several disUnci 

 references to outrages committed by flotillas of Dyak 

 prahus '* at Sambas, at Mampawa, and other places on the 

 coast of PontiEina. They dai*ed even to lie in wait for 

 the man-of-war schooner Hmi, and in one engagement 

 killed thirty-seven of the Dutch, losing eighty of their 

 own force. These Dyaks/' concludes the report, " came 

 from 8EitEBAfi, a locality north of Sambas, only accessible 

 to the small light vessels of the Dyaks, of slender fonn. 

 In their voyages they bum and massacre along Uie shores 

 all that is within their reach. As trophies they carry off 

 tlie skulls of the victims of their ferocity." So tJmt here 



* &f , Do Grci4)t'» corflpilaUoiij entiLlc^d,. "Paper t^latLm^ lo Use Pii^ckn com- 

 mUtetl in the Indijiii Archipelago/' i» a rctuiirkable copiniotit on Mr. Uuinc^B 

 Bliiw;n-3tioii Uiat* there niajr 1» aonte pimicB, hul tbcy btc few/* It fills fiiit^ 

 Foliq pog^ and riwordB^ on an avcni^e^ ten outra^^a^ p«r pii^, mcludiog every 

 ItiDd of allAtlt on every kind ¥o«kjl, wlUi m iutidtiUs of 03a.s»;i«ro, burning, 

 tUverj^ &c,. and yet it iH cUitill^' eaiiftiierl to rucIi m have affcetccl the Dutfili 

 commerce, aini lo tbe uii;atiurci£ Lukea by the Ncikcrlaiid Govonunujit for the 

 inppreBuon of piracy. 



