2S0 A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



retrospective glance at it will not be without its use, as 

 illustrating the following propositions 



1. That pit*icy has always had a similar origin. 



2. That it has always grown and flourished under 

 similar circumstances. 



3. That it has always required similar measures for its 

 suppression ; and 



4. Similar appliances for its permanent preTcntion, 



Its onfiu has been orroETUNiTY ; temptation in that 

 sliapDj acting irresistibly on the natural depravity of man* 



It has grown and nourished — first by impunity^ or 

 toleration, due to ita early insignificance ; then by acquu*" 

 ing a gradual, and at length a very tenacious hold upon the 

 passions and the interests, not only of it^ original folio wei^s, 

 but also of the very people who alone could check it. 



It has been suppressed — never, save by the most 

 maomvii atEASURis. 



It has been pe^'maumitl^ extingukhed by a combination 

 wiih seyerity of humanising and profitable pursuits, as 



BUBSTtTUTES. 



L Pu-acy, thus reviewed, beckons us back^ even into the 

 abyss of ages. 



" Giant i-leicns, crowding iasl^, 

 Slfle In tid iDdonligbt of tlio shadowy past, 

 Wbsre, through tlic miitU of Um^^aHnciitthmo^^ 

 Tbi^ ghoeiB af mjglity cmpIrcK glide along." 



Among the ghosts are those of mighty pirate 

 EMPIRES^ — for they were nothing less, — seriously embar- 

 rassing, even for a time overawing, the Asiatic, the 



