SQUARE-RJGGET) VESSELS. 



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we bavG specific acts of " daring " outrage on European 

 vessels of i^rar, bi^ought home to tlie Dyaks of Serobas ; 

 we Iiave ** t!ieir Toyages/* mentioned, as one refers to 

 common occurrences ; we have their airocious habits 

 ahove those of other pirates ; we have their boats des- 

 cribed m exactly of that kind in whic!i Mr. Hume protests 

 they could mi practise piracy* 



Antl not only do we sec that ''square-rigged" vessels 

 have been attacked by Serebas pirates, but it is prohablo 

 there Iiavo been numerous instances ; fur, besides 

 the iictual or presumptive proofe already adduced, there 

 are, in De Groot*s report, abundant records of such out- 

 rages bj pimtes of Borkeo : and wo may fairly reason 

 that those pirates of Borneo, who have been the least 

 watched or controlled, are Iikelj to have been the most 

 mischievous; and no part of the island has been so 

 incompletely or so irregularly pi*otected as that north- 

 west coast which, having clependcd on the guardianship of 

 England^ has been consigned considerably to the mercies 

 of the Serebas. 



But whatever has been the number of their outrages on 

 European vessels, a word will explain why they have not 

 been more. The trade of the Indian Archipelago is not 

 carried on principally in square-rigged, but in native craft, 

 I have now before me the rctuivn from Sincapore for the 

 year ending Just previously to the destruction of 



the Scj^ebas fleet : it shows a proportion of four native 

 vessels to one European, engaged in the trade to that 



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