The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08

other chiefs. These were now distrib-
uted- feast was then held, and the
next morning the chiefs started for
thelr homes, highly gratified with the
result of their meeting On the follow
ing day The British toats also TOOK t Ell
way Gown the river. followed by the
prahu, With a considerable number of
aassan's men. who were to clear away
the ruins of Sehi's campong, to bury
the dead still lying among them, and
10 erect hutS for the whole community
Inc serpent remained for week oppo-
site the town; a considerable quantity
Oh hour, sugar and other useful stores
being landed for the use of Hassan's
people. DR.. Horsley was gladdened by
should be instructed to search for
specimens of birds, butterflies and
other insects, and that these should be
treated according to his instructions,
and should be, from time to time as
occasion offered, sent down to him in
large cases to Singapore. To the two
midshipnen the chief gave krisses of
the finest temper
I have no presents to give you
worthy of your acceptance" he said,
but you know that / shall never for
get you, and always regard you as
brothers. l intend to send II of my
young men down to Penang, there to
live for three years and learn u-fuf
trades from your people. The Doctor
has advised me also to send Bali, and
has promised to find a comfortable
home for her. where she will learn to
read and write your language and
many other useful things. 1t is hard
to part with her, but it is for her good
and that of her people. If you will
write TO me sometimes, she will read
the letters to me, and write letters to
in vat ,rrl,
away from each other, we may know
that neither of us has forgotten the
other"
Bali and II young Malays were taken
to Penang in the Serpent, where the
doctor found a comfortable home for
her with some friends of his, to whom
payment for her board and schooling
was to be paid bv Hassan in blocks of
tin, which he would obtain from boats
coming down from the hills, in ex-
change for other articles of trade. The
Malays were placed with men of their
own race belonging to the protected
states. and settled as carpenters,
smiths and other tradesmen in Pc
nang. Three years later they and Bali
were all taken back in the Serpent to
their home.
The river was acquiring considerable
Importance from the great increase Of
trade. They found Hassan's town far
more extensive and fiourishing than it
had been in the time of its predecessor.
The forest had been cleared for a con-
siderable distance around it, the for
mer inhabitants had returned, tobacco
sugar cane. cotton. pepper, and other
crops whose products were useful for
trade purposes, were largely cultivated,
while orchards of fruit trees had been
extensively planted. Hassan reported
that tribal wars had almost ceased and
that disputes were in most all cases
brought for his arbitration. Owing
to the abolition of all oppressive tolls,
trade from the interior had very large
increased, a great deal of tin, to-
gether with spices and other products,
now finding its way down by the rivers.
Hassan was delighted with the prog
ress Bali had made, and ordered that
three or four boys should at once be
placed for instruction under each Of
the men who had learned trades at Pc j,
caE@
There was much regret on both sides
when the Serpent again started down
the river; for it was known that she
would not return, as in a few months
she would be sent to Chinese sta
ton, and from, there would go direct
to England. The composition of her
crew was already somewhat changed.
Lieutenant Ferguson had received his
promotion for the fight with the
prahus, and had been appointed to the
command of a gunboat whose captain
had been invalided home. Lieutenant
Hopkins was now the Serpent's first
lieutenant, and Morrison was second.
Harry Parkhurst was third lieutenant, !
Dick Balderson, to the regret of both
having left the ship on his promotion,
and having been transferred as third
lieutenant to Captain Ferguson's craft. |
Both have since kept up a correspon-
dence with Bali. who has married a
chief, and who tells them
that the river is prospecting greatly, |
and that, although he assumes no
her father is everywhere re-
garded as the paramount chief of the
district. From time to time each re-
ceive chests filed with spices. silks
and other Malay products, and send
back in return European articles of
utility to the rajah, for such is the rank
that Hassan has now acquired on the
river.
(TIfE ENID