THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO.

the ship? We made up our minds at last that it must have been
upon the representations of the admiral to the Admiralty that we
had been ordered home. There could be no other reason. We drank
his health in nine times nine.

On the 24th of March we sailed from Balam-bangan, with the
intention of making a flying survey of the coast of Borneo, as far as
the island of Labuan and the country at Sarawak, to make the best
of our way to Singapore, at which place we hoped to arrive about the
1st of May, there to receive our final orders and start for England.
It would be tedious, and it is not necessary, to give a description of
the survey which we afterwards made. We went over the same
ground as before, and we surveyed with a musket in one hand and a
sextant in the other, for the natives were not to be trusted. Our
warlike friends at Tampassook did not much relish our re-appearance
on their coast. A Spanish slave made his escape from them and
came on board, begging a passage to any where. He had been taken
prisoner, with six or seven others, in an engagement between the
Manilla gun boats and the Illanoan pirates, and had been very
cruelly treated. We learnt from this man that the pirates of Tam-
passook are very rich, and possessed a large number of fine prahu.
They had also plenty of fire-arms, but were afraid of them, preferring
their own weapons.

It was here that we heard the news of the murder of our old friends
Rajah Muda and Bud-ruddeen. It appeared that they had been accused
of being privy to the attack of the English on Maludu, and sup-
porting our claims to the island of Labuan. Bud-ruddeen died as
he had lived, a brave man, and worthy of a better fate. On the
approach of his enemies he retired to his house with his sister and
favourite wife, both of whom insisted upon sharing his destiny. For
some time he fought like a lion against a superior force, until his

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