A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCIlIPELAUa. 



Mr* Bnunmoiid saiJ, " cooked " by an over-expericuceil 

 artidBi will be evitleiit if we taste the aame animal, served 

 ujj by that gentleman m nafftreL The foUowiiig is a 

 ipmuhie letter addressed by Lim to the Sultan of Brun^* 

 It. was amusingly exliibited tu the House of Commons,— 

 headed with a vijjtictte raw of the Horse Guards : — 



'*My Deak Sultan, 



"Alth in London 160U miles awbay from you 1 

 do not forget you and Borneo and ^Yhen I como back 

 to Singapore I sball come and see you I liayc told 

 all my friends in London wliat nice old Gentleman 

 yun are ajid are much pleased with the account of 

 Borueo and the plesent life the Malays lead the Queen 

 had A little boy the other day I sljonld not be surprized 

 if it h not tailed The Sultan I nmst buy some 

 little present in London for the Sultan Before I loeve 

 Mrs Wlm and all Her friends sends their Kind Com- 

 plements to the Sultan tender my respects to Pengaren 

 Molniean and Pengaren Maccootar and all the otlicr 

 Pengaren s and nobles of Brunie, 



** Oping this will find you all well believe me 

 Dear Sultan yours llespectfuUy 



"William Hoiiy Miles, 



" LoNDOsr, Wh May, laid, " LaTB PB3«ciAitE.v Miua Labuan. 



" P.S. Tliis is the Queens Birthday I drank yom* and 

 Her very Good Health in A hiun]>er and wished you 

 iiiif^ht live A hundred years." 



