A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Mæander, Vol. 2 of 2: With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Mæander, Vol. 2 of 2: With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B

Before leaving the coast, I may as well give a short account of the then state of things at Sarawak.

I have already referred to the reasons which first induced Sir James Brooke to accept the Rajahship it has been seen how he entered upon the organisation of a. Refractory or distressed population of about 8000 souls, taking to his assistance the leading rebel chiefs. Sarawak or Kuching, as it was then called, was a village. By internal war the bonds of society had been loosened the Dyaks driven into the jungle. Government was at an end; rapine and crime of all kinds were of daily occurrence - trade was literally extinct.

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