R X. PAGES 127-147.

Erroneous ideas as to the objects of the Company. Difficult to
steal Highlanders' trowsers. Natives 'take no thought for the
morrow.' The Company does not engage in trade or agriculture. The
Company's capital is a loan to the country, to be repaid with
interest as the country developes under its administration. Large
area of land to be disposed of without encroaching on native
rights. Land sales regulations. Registration of titles. Minerals
reserved. Transfer from natives to foreigners effected through the
Government. Form of Government--the Governor, Residents, &c. Laws
and Proclamations. The Indian Penal, Criminal, and Civil procedure
codes adopted. Slavery--provision in the Charter regarding. Slave
legislation by the Company. Summary of Mr. Witti's report on the
slave system. Messrs. Everett and Fryer's reports. Commander
Edwards, R.N., attacks the kidnapping village of Teribas in H.M.S.
_Kestrel_. Slave keeping no longer pays. Religious customs of the
natives preserved by the Charter. Employment of natives as
Magistrates, &c. Head-hunting. Audit of 'Heads Account.' Human
sacrifices. Native punishments for adultery and theft. Causes of
scanty population. Absence of powerful warlike tribes. Head
hunting--its origin. An incident in Labuan. Mr. A. Cook. Mr.
Jesse's report on the Muruts to the East India Company. Good
qualities of the aborigines. Advice to young officers. The
Muhamadans of the coast, the Brunais, Sulus, Bajows. Capture by
Bajows of a boat from an Austrian frigate. Baron Oesterreicher.
Gambling and cattle lifting. The independent intervening rivers.
Fatal affray in the Kawang river: death of de Fontaine, Fraser and
others. Mr. Little. Mr. Whitehead. Bombardment of Bajow villages
by Captain A. K. Hope, R.N., H.M.S. _Zephyr_. Captain Alington,
R.N., in H.M.S. _Satellite_. The Illanuns and Balinini. Absence of
Negritos. The 'tailed' people. Desecration of European graves.
Muhamadans' sepulture. Burial customs of the aborigines.

CHAPTER XI. PAGES 147-165.

Importance of introducing Chinese into Borneo. Java not an
example. Sir Walter Medhurst Commissioner of Chinese immigration.
The Hakka Chinese settlers. Sir Spencer St. John on Chinese
immigration. The revenue and expenditure of the territory. Zeal
of the Company's officers. Armed Sikh and Dyak police. Impossible
to raise a native force. Heavy expenditure