SSt A VISIT TO THE INDIAN AECHSFELAGO, 



Danicll, or his " merchant " friend, whether they deny that 

 there are tigers at Sincapore 1 They eat up Cliiiiamen 

 at the rate of one per diem : yet, ina,^miu;]i as none come 

 home to sm/ they are eaten up, and inasmuch as many 

 still go to and fro uneaten, is it ikereftwe that there are 

 no tigers in the jungles of Sincaporo ? Trading pmhus 

 hme passed itnmokstetl, just as Chinanien have walked 

 uneaten ; but the point is (as proved hy the immediate result 

 of the action of 184D) that ten times so many would have 

 passed, had there been no pirates : and who can tell how 

 manjhavo disappeared under a system which applies fire and 

 sword to obliterate all traces of its atrocities t The inter- 

 cepted prabu merely never reaches Borneo, or never arrives 

 at Sincapore ; and there is an end of it. But if Captain 

 Daniell's "merchant'^ meant to tell liim that, for twenty- 

 five jearSj he — being in the way of hearing— had not heard 

 of any small coasting-vessel being molested by pirates, I 

 must now merely refer him to the preceding chapter, 

 wishing his memory and Ms conscience much good there- 

 from. But again, if tliere he some quibble in reserve about 

 " the English flag " he will iearn, as he reads on, that, in the 

 judgment of some as leaj*ned in definitions as himself, the 

 *' flag ^' attacked makes no more diiFereuce tliaii tlie rig/' 

 It has been sti-onglj assertod in Parliament, probably 

 on tills authority, — an anonj-mous officer quoting an 

 anonymous mercliant —that these desperate hordes of 

 enemies to the world at large are " merely mimomoria! 

 enernies of the Sarawak tribe/* Nothmg can be more 



