monopoly, poll tax, customs, excise, fines
and fees. Revenue and expenditure. Early financial straits.
Sarawak offered to England, France and Holland. The Borneo Company
(Ltd.). Public debt. Advantages of Chinese immigration 'Without
the Chinese we can do nothing.' Java an exception. Chinese are
good traders, agriculturists, miners, artizans, &c.: sober and
law-abiding. Chinese secret societies and faction fights; death
penalty for membership. Insurrection of Chinese, 1857. Chinese
pepper and gambier planters. Exports--sago and jungle produce.
Minerals--antimony, cinnabar, coal. Trade--agriculture.
Description of the capital--Kuching. Sir Henry Keppel and Sir
James Brooke. Piracy. 'Head money.' Charges against Sir J. Brooke.
Recognition of Sarawak by United States and England. British
protectorate. Death of Sir J. Brooke. Protestant and Roman
Catholic Missions. Bishops MacDougal and Hose. Father Jackson.
Mahomedans' conversion not attempted.

CHAPTER V. PAGES 77-84.

Incident of the Limbang rebellion against Sultan of Brunai.
Oppression of the nobles. Irregular taxation--Chukei basoh batis,
bongkar sauh, tulongan, chop bibas, &c. The orang kayas. Repulse
of the Tummonggong. Brunai threatened. Intervention of the writer
as acting Consul General. Datu Klassi. Meeting broken up on news
of attack by Muruts. Sultan's firman eventually accepted.
Demonstration by H.M.S. _Pegasus_. 'Cooking heads' in Brunai
river. Death of Sultan Mumim. Conditions of firman not observed by
successor. Sir Frederick Weld visits and reports on North Borneo
and Brunai. Legitimate extension of Sarawak to be encouraged.

CHAPTER VI. PAGES 84-92.

The Colony of Labuan, ceded to England in return for assistance
against pirates. For similar reasons monopoly of pepper trade
granted to the East India Company in 1774. First British
connection with Labuan in 1775, on expulsion from Balambangan.
Belcher and Brooke visit Brunai, 1844, to enquire into alleged
detention of an European female. Offer of cession of Labuan. Rajah
Muda Hassim. At Sultan's request, British attack Osman, in Marudu
Bay, 1845. Brooke recognised as the Queen's agent in Borneo.
Captain Mundy, R.N., under Lord Palmerston's instructions, hoists
British flag in Labuan, 24th Dec., 1846. Brooke appointed the
first Governor, 1847, being at the same time British
representative in Borneo, and independent ruler