m A VISIT TO THF, IXDIAX ARCHIPELAGO, 



received a doatli-blow. Then is Comj[ei?ce ready to come 

 fortJi from ber retreat, and to l>ecome gradiiEilly tbo means 

 of perma/ientij/ weaning tlie pirate from hm ways ; and 

 then is CHBisTiANTTr ready to follow in her train : but 

 Sir Tbomas Cccbrane could never mean to inform" any 

 man in bis senses tbat a disease was only to be cured by a 

 remcd}^ ivhicb could only be brought into existence 

 after the disease had been cured— Ring Alfred might 

 as well hare "informed^' his subjects that 'Mnorc ^vaa to 

 be done for the repression of wolves by the multiplication 

 of sheep, and by making the wolves as tame as dogs, than 

 by any operations of a decapitative nature," But Mr. 

 Hume 13 generally unfortuimte when he ImngB on to 

 a respectable authority : nobody of tbat stamp whom he 

 quotes is found, on esamiiiation^ really to go with him m 

 tiiis matter. Sir Thomas Cocbi-ane, in a letter of which 1 

 shall give other portions according as they shall apply to 

 the point under discnssion, enables m in the following 

 passage to judge whether Sii- James Brooke would pre- 

 maturely ask a Commander-in-Chief for tlio means of 

 resorting to coercive measures. Thus wi-ites Sir Thomas 

 Coclirane : — " With regard to the atUick upon the Serebas 

 and Sakarran pirates, I derive my persuasion that the 

 means were only resorted to as of absolute necessity, 

 from the fact that either upon my first or second visit 

 to Sarawak, having heard tbat those people were dis- 

 turbing that settlement as w^ell as other parts of the coast, 

 / offered fo place a fm^cc at Mr. Brooke's disposed, for the 



