A VISIT TO THE INDIAN AKCHIPELAQO. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Ik commenting on the light whicli Mr. Earl and 

 Mr, Brooke have thrown upon the duaracter of the 

 8erebas and Sakarrans, I have neijessarily made many 

 observations wliich will applj with equal force to 

 Mr, Himie'a further " evideuce." Still, his T^'itnesses ai-e 

 worth hearing ; or rather, it is worth while to hear from 

 themselves how little such a set were worth the labour 

 of bringing together, to waste a night's debate for the 

 Commons of Euglaiid, to expose themselves to contempt, 

 and those who brought them at least to ridicide. Two 

 years of that industry for which Mr, Hume is remarkable 

 were occupied in getting up Lis strength for this debate : 

 frequent references were, I beUeve, made by or for him to 

 Sineaporc and Borneo ; and when at last» on the lOth of 

 Jnly 1S51, he opens his battery, we may with a natiu"al 

 cm'iosity scrutinise every gun, which it took years to 

 bring into play, and minutes to silence. 



