CAPTAIN HASTINGS. 



Captain Ilastings refused to Bsmt Sir James Brooke 

 agaimjt a fleet of pirates, far from being the same occasion 

 on wliicli Captain Farquhar did assist Wm ; — was five f/ears 

 previous to it I and Mn Hume miist have learned from 

 mj " Expedition to Borneo/' the reason which constrained 

 Captain Hastings to decline this operation — his dis- 

 appointment at Ij^ing so constrained — and the fact tliat / 

 very shortly after, not being under similar difllculty, did 

 attack the very pirates whom he was forced fco leave, and 

 had tlie honour of being approved of by my superiors 

 and they were the same individuals who appi'Oted of fny 

 gallant friend's refusal. I say that Mr. Hume must have 

 learned this from my " Expedition to Borneo ; " becauae* 

 if he Iiave truly "given great attention to tliis subject/* 

 he cannot have been deterred by any defects of style, 

 from seeking information in a work which was the first 

 that appeared on Bomoan siibjectSj and which abounds hi 

 stubborn facta on piracy, such as even / was qualified to 

 record. He will have read in tiiat work, Tol ii p, 81, 

 a letter from Sir Jiuues Brooke to myself dated 

 26th May, ISAi, 



It states that H, M. 8. Harfeqimiy commanded by 

 Captain Hastings — had lately appcarcd off the coast, just 

 as the notorious pirate SerifF S^iliib had collected, for one 

 of their harmleas regatto, a fleet of 200 Byak boats Jind 

 fifteen or twenty armed Malay prahns ; *^T.ud" adds the 

 Eajali, "we might have had them all/' In the uext 

 page, Mr. Hume wlU have rcatl, ** No one could have been 



