THE "FEROCIOUS" RAJAH. 



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Lord OiiKY lias received witb mucli satisfaction Com- 

 mander Farqiibfir's report of his successful operations 

 against tliosG 2>ii"atcs." 



I til ink I may say that tliis history has told iLseif ; and 

 that all concerned in tho operations under discussion did 

 no more than what ** England always expects every man 

 to do — ^hia dutt/" 



But where Tvas the ferocious Eajali 1 and how many 

 poor Dyak incUj l)yak toomen^ and Dyak chUdrmi (for 

 wit] J such ferocities he is charged withal) did he really 

 masaacrc ? The very name of his prahu, Singh Jtajtt/t 

 (Lion ICtiig) proves him to be a blood-thirsty anthi*o- 

 pophagus. — This u just all the proof that can be found of 

 his murderous performances. That Ke wEts on the Bcene, 

 that he concmred in the necessity of wliat wuj^ done, is 

 freely admitted ; but it so happens for those who select 

 him as the individual who especially "perpetrated the 

 massacres" (Mr. Hume's words) that the position which he 

 had taken up in tlie Kaluka river, and from which he did 

 not stir until the mornittg after the action, confined kk 

 inurdeTOUs operations to tho firing of one signal rocket. 

 Let the reader turn to page 156, — He was in ignorance 

 of what took place, and passed the night in exciting, 

 though confident suspense/' I may add tliat he wasij on 

 the day and liight of the action, labom-ing under a severe 

 attack of fever and ague, wldeh would alone have inca* 

 pacitatcd him from taking a promiticnt pjut. He was^ I 

 atliitit, equally responsible fi^r anything dune l\v himwderH; 



