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It does not enter into my present task to diatusR wlnit 

 precise ineiiflures, as lasting proventivos, migbt be most 

 eflTectnally adopted in tlio Eastern Ai'chipelago, after 

 piracy shall liavo been put down, CiuiHtiaijity and 

 civilisation must, of course aoonornr later, take the liigliest 

 places ; hut whether they ran always leadj or must some- 

 times condescend U) follow in the train of more hnmcrliately 

 practical aiicillaries, must depend on the chai-actoristics of 

 each country ; — for tlic national reformer must be a man 

 of cnlar^d views, of personal character (in which respect 

 nt least I may he proud of my friend Sir James Brooke)— 

 of judgincnt, patience, decision, courage, penetration ; 1 

 might liave expressed it more briefly and better by saying 

 that he must have the "wisdom which is from above." But 

 r refrain from these speculations, though not uninteresting, 

 as well as fi'oni oflering any snggeetions of detail as to 

 the best working means of puttmg down tlie calamity of 

 the Archipelago ; that means com jmrati rely simple and 

 inexpensive wotild succeed I feel convinced. I will now 

 ky before the reader some well digested remarks o^^ 

 this subject, winch appeared not long since in an ably 

 conducted Sincapore periodical 



The primary subject of its writer is the promotion of 

 what are called " anioks/^ to an instance of which singukr 

 oriental rage Sir Thomas Cochrane seems to refer in his 

 letter, quoted in the preceding chapter. "'The Malay 

 tendency to run amok, or a-mnck, as we commonly call 

 it, (s never likely to leave him,'' argues the writer to whom 



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