330 A VISIT TO TKE INDIAN ARCniPELAGO. 



The afldrcss frora Sincfiporo to Sir James Brooke bears 

 twcnhj~iwo signuturc^i — being those of the representatives 

 of -ExmY MERCAiTTiLE PiRM estaMisked at Smcap&re e^cept^ 

 |T0rhap3 fkreef and it was not extended to the respoctablo 

 cks3 of natives. If I were not hastening to conditdc thk 

 Chapter I wouUl set it forth, as a most satisfactorj and 

 conchisive (lorament ; — recognismg, on sucli imquestion- 

 able authoi'itj, the iiecessity \viuch exists for suppressing 

 Bornean piiiicy — tliG propriety of the measures adopted — 

 the Immanitj and mildness which accompanied their 

 carr^^ing out. 



Su* James Brooke received an address of similar 

 import from Batavia i hut " coming in at tJiG last hour/* 

 says Mr, Hume, it had the appcjirance of being 

 prepared for the occasion I " Mow then was Mr, Hume's 

 prepared ? I believe tliat an analysis of the list of 

 signatures would give three or four merchants (whose 

 presence need not be here accounted for), and the 

 remainder is made up of a heterogeneous crowd, of 

 whom I may safely say that they are not what 

 Mr. I Fume would havo his hearers suppose. Conmion 

 sense goes with ns as we compare these rival documents, 

 certifying that the one is true and geimine, wliile the 

 o^er reads like an incorporation of such hoaxes as 

 humorous captains and nakodas would pass upon busy- 

 bodies foraging for calumny. 



The letter wliich / received in 1843 from the Bajali 

 Jfluda Ilaaami, will not here bo out of place. It la 



