CAPTAIN DANIKIX « CONCLUDES." SSl 



day make its appearance off the Norfolk coast, and send 

 a detachment head-lmnting to " Burnley Hall" So his 

 question waa not simply, " Are the Sercbas pirates 1 " 

 but, "Are tliej enemies of this great and happy land t " 



Captain Baniells reply is enough to re-assure EnglaiKl 

 through its length and breadth : — ** I conclude that the 

 enemies of tlie Sarawak tribe are not pirates, fwr enemies 

 of this great and happy land.** And liis autliority for 

 this conclusion must set the matter at rest. *' A 

 merchant told him so ; and told him, in proof thereof, 

 that " small coasting-vessek under the Englif^h flag had 

 been in the habit of trading to and from Bruni for the last 

 twenty -five years, and that tkej/ had never been molested." 

 He, Captain Daniell, also "learnt that the Dyaks in 

 question were not noted and despemte pirates, but mereh^ 

 enemies of the Sarawak tribe, from time itnmemorial." 

 Lastly, though stationed sixteen months on the coast of 

 Borneo, he never saw nor heard of a pirate, which 

 greatly disappointed him ; as he 'was led to suppose the 

 coast abounded with them " 



77tf!se ** conclusions Mr. Hume*s " officer contributes 

 anonymouMy ; but, as Captain DanieU, late of the steam- 

 frigate Se?mramis^ on the Bornean coasts he ia short and 

 simple : " he never fell in with a pirate, nor ever heard of 

 the Dyaks in qtiestiou having molested an English or 

 foreign vesseL" 



Going back, however, to what he has said^ "on the 

 o^er side of his mouth/' let me, in reply, ask Captain 



