fi28 A VISIT TO THE INDIAN AHCHirtlLAOO. 



light iJiat was throiKTi upon his communication in the 

 House of Commons exposed it aa a kind of forgery. It 

 was *' cooked," — and so badlj, that none could swallow it 

 Mr* Miles, however, if lie <lid not serve up the dish^ — 

 for it is garnished with scholarship above his mark, — yet 

 found the ingredients for the cook, and he must be con- 

 sidered accordingly : but the tetter is long and would be 

 tedious here. 



Mr. Milcs's qualification to give " information on this 

 subject " {Serebas piracy) is, that he had worked a coal- 

 mine at Labuaii. 



By way of introduction to Captain Farquhar*s " piratical 

 expedition/* he says he " will offer some remarks on the 

 Malays from Pontiana to Maludu Bay that Is, he will 

 commence 300 miles on one side of the Serebaa, and end 

 500 miles on the other side. This promises a compre- 

 hensive view. 



What came over him just here is not disclosed ; but 

 not another word do we Itear either of Pontiana> or Malndti 

 Bay J or of the intervening country. Mr. Miles simply 

 narrates that while he worked the coal-mine at Labnan he 

 kept his little liousehold gods at Victoria Bay, where 

 " nothing was ever stolen," not even an old pair of 

 hand-cuffs, nor a boxing-glo\?e. The Malays were very 

 honest ; very civil to Mrs, W. H. M. He would as soon 

 trade on the Bomoan sts on the English coast. 



Mr. Miles next adds, as relevant to " this subject," that 

 a young man named Burns lived with the Malays three 



