CAPTAIN FARQUHAE, 



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in which, from the force you will find at your disposal, 

 there is no doubt you will be successful. 



You iirc at liherty to oniploy the Company's steam- 

 vessels Stmnrfmi.'? and Neme^^is, and Her Majesty's sur- 

 veying-vessel lioi/aiiM in this service ; but you must take 

 every precaution not to expose the men to needless 

 djmger, either from the chniate or from the enemy. 



I need not recapitulate Captain Farquhar's proceedings 

 in obedience to those orders. Thoy are detailed by 

 mysolf in Chapter IX, : the official reports of them have 

 been laid before Pnrhament, and may be easily seen. 

 1 must not be supposed to have any feeling save regret 

 at a saenfice of human life ; but one thing is certain,— 

 tJiat if Captain Farquhar swerved at all from his orders, 

 it was on tlie side of mercy ; for he was ordered to 

 " dmiroj; the Serebas and Sakarran pirates " to assist in 

 m'i'^'y 'mg out thia object and when 500 are slain or 

 drowned, and all subsequent casualties swell the loss to 

 800 out of nearly 4000 pirates, the officer in command 

 could scarcely report that he had acted up to his orders 

 in "destroying/' though he well knew tliat a discretion 

 $0 exercised would not he questioned. That this signal 

 chastisement was indicted on such a piratical force^ with 

 scarcely a casualty on Iiis side, is sufficient proof that 

 Commander Farquhar most fully and laudably acted up 

 to his ordera to " take every precaution not to expose the 



