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Up to this point, our observations on the siibjects of 

 piracy have been confined to the qi^cstion of its existence 

 in one or two particukr rivers of Eornco, and to tlie 

 inquiry whether the inhabitants of those rivers are 

 difbreut by nature, by education, or by habit, from all fcho 

 otlier Malays and Dyaks in the world ; -whether, in short, 

 as it has been excellently asked by one able writer — and 

 really the whole matter resolves itself into this — " whether 

 the banks of the Serebas and Sakarran are a modern 

 Arcadia, or a Moravian settlement —whether their fleets 

 are a mere Yacht Club, and their expeditions regattas." 

 I have giv^en my answer to this question ; and now, in 

 my few additional remarks, I shall treat the subject more 

 comprehensively* as one of iniTaeasnrablc interest to the 

 world at large. This is no exaggeration, in an age which is 



