SM A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



Djaks in his own immciliate neighbourhood m Borneo, 

 he advocates tho cause of reUgion, education, and bene- 

 voleace in England ; talks of establishing churclies and 

 acbool-houses, of planting missionaries and a bishop at 

 Sarawak." 



Sttppomfff them to be pirates I I think we maj ^* con- 

 clude" and opine" that they are so, and pass to the 

 unsettled question at once. If Mr. Hume ia not yet 

 convinced, and if he knowa any one else who is not, 1 

 can on?y suggest, as a last resort, the fashionable pastiiiie 

 of a lecture on piracy. 



We have "Jonrnies from Comhill to Cairo/' "Yisita 

 to the American Indians," " Walks about Jemsalem*" 



Ascents of Mont Blanc/' and why not "A Voyage up 

 the Serobas/' &c„ with iaUeau^ timm to match ? and, 

 by way of drawing a house, we might anticipate the 



unprecedented attraction " of seeing Mr. Hume con- 

 vincedf and hearing him confess that he has beea 

 mistaken. The illustrations ahall be in keeping : guns 

 from the unarmed — poisoned arrows from the inofFensiTe 

 — modek of war-prabus used by peaceful traders— a Dyak 

 skull (I know where there is one) taken from a Sakarran 

 house. I shall be happy, in short, if he will bring his 

 sceptical party to my cottage,— 



" Ar&TiinI the fine la eTfiuing to dniw, 

 And tall of ai^ / fdt, and a« / Bfcir" 



of PlllACT, 



But WO mast now get on. Su^fmng then, again, that 



