WHAT THE NAKODAS SAY. 235 



pallj LANUjrs aiitl Dyaks. Tho ])yaks of Sakariian are 

 pirates, and commit ravagos along tlie coast : the Djaka 

 of Serebas are notorious pirates," 



The above statement was taken, and that of another 

 nakoda, to the same effect, by Colonel Buttcrwoitli, 

 Goveraor of the Malacca Straits Settlements, for tho 

 information of the Inchan Government, 



" In the absence/' he says, " of anj^ evidence from 

 Captain ICeppel, regarduig the piratical propensities of 

 the cliieftains he attacked, Sheriff Saliibo and iSheriff 

 Mulah, I deemed it advis^iblu to take tlic depositions of the 

 nakodas of two vessels from Borneo, now lying in 

 the Sincapore roads. These will distinctly show that 

 these chieftains are, and have long been the niain insti- 

 gatoi*s, and not unfi-cqiiently the piincipai actors, in tlie 

 piratical cruelties and i-obbeiies committed between these 

 settlements and Borneo." 



What becomes then of the fifty-three "merchants of 

 Sincapore " to whom all these things are strange 1 * 



The imnihcr of mercantile firms in Sincapore is about 

 twenty-seven ; Mr, Hum© stated it to he exactly so, 

 ** Out of twenty-seven liouses/' he says, fourteen signed 

 an address to Sir James Brooke, and thirteen did not." f 

 The frnst number is con'ect ; the other is incorrect* 



• On* exomptfi will &how tiat eolloetors of siguitlan^ tmy go a tUtk ioQ ftu-- 

 Among those who nei^ htard of SdrL^b^ pinitci is a*^iiuifltor nwrinar, for tl^pc^ 

 jcura in ccmuDancI of tUe Jfdiftt Iwknglng to -^iV Jmivts BrmJic!** 



+ In Hafmird be made to call this la ftddjrai from "uomc placo la Borneo." 

 Biit \i nitist ^HJ A mLatakc of the rciwricr. In llic '* TlmcK,"' it i4 Smcapoi^ 



This iitiJiirss may bti fotuiil ija the Apjscndix, and in lliu rorlbtuciiULrj J^iipefB. 



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