POUCE OF THE SBA- 



thera to go in larger numbers, and with a more expensive 

 equipment tlian would otherwise be necessary. 



'^Experience has shewn that tlie Malay diiefs of the 

 PeniuHula are quite willing to co-operate la tlie abolitien 

 of piracy ; but tliey require to bo constantly pushed, 

 directed and encouraged. It is only by eiigfiging ail the 

 powers in the Tvcslern part of the Archipelago to act in 

 concert that effectual measures can he t^ken. The 

 pirates must be tracked by a combination of information 

 and action, until they find they ean no longer caiTy with 

 them the privacy, which at present renders their visits more 

 unexpected tlian a thunder-storm ^ and which prevents 

 the chain of their operatioms from being detected. 



" What h wanted is that Govermnent be made practically 

 conversant with the nature and operation of the evil^ and 

 with the necessity for a cotnbination of all the govern- 

 ments exercising power in tlic Arcliipelago, to suppress this 

 enonuous crime. When they have made np their minds to 

 this, tliere will be no difiiculty hi finding agents to procure 

 the combination, and to orgaiiisc and direct its power. 



** It may be said tliat the position of Great Britain in 

 the Archipelago is not such as to require or even admit 

 of her taJdng a part in any work of such wide extent. 

 We assert that her position is such as to place lier under 

 the most positive and solemn obligation to undertake this 

 work, to enable her to give the most efiectual co-operation 

 in it, and to render that co-operation indispensiible. Tlic 

 jMjIice of every sea belongs to tliose nations whoso vessels 



