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CHAPTER XIII. 



AccoRDiNO to my plan, proposed in Chapter XL, I am 

 now to show that Mr. Hume's second position is as 

 imtcnablc as liis first. It is tliis ; tliat — 



Supposing the Malays and Djaks of Sere has and 

 SakajTan to be really pirates, still, an unjustifiable loss 

 of life was inflicted on them by the naval force which 

 attacked their fleet on the 2l3t July, 1849. This I 

 should deny with equal confidence in any shape ; but my 

 particular task ih to refute the charge. As it has pleased 

 Mr. Hume to lay its supposed odium on Sir James 

 Brooke — sometimes exclusively, sometimes with just that 

 show of dividing his favours^ which iji\'ites one to 

 contradict him generally as well as pai ticularly. 



" Sir James Brooke caused many hundred weak savages 

 to be slaughtered, under the allegation that they were 

 pirates. * * * While Sir Jajnes Brooks slaughters 



