any, Supabuscul, Tambesan,
which forms also an elegant harbor, Laboan or Saboan, Tuncu, Salurong,
Giong, and Maday, which has a gold-mine, before mentioned. The whole
of this province, it is said, will produce above one hundred piculs
of the finest birds'-nests, much black ditto, some camphor, tripan,
honey, wax, dammer, Buru mats, fine spars; sago and pepper were
formerly largely cultivated here. The pearl-banks of Tawi Tawi have
been mentioned.

Tirun. The sea-ports of this last mentioned and valuable province,
ceded to the English by the Sulos, are chiefly inhabited by Buguese
people. The towns are Sibuku, Sambakung, Leo or Ledong, Sikatak,
Sabellar, Kuran or Barrow, Talysion Dumaung, Tapeandurian. The
principal ports are Kuran and Sibuku; they produce a large quantity
of very fine white birds'-nests, a quantity of black ditto, much
dammer, sago, tripan, wax, rattans, camphor, honey, Buru mats, gold,
&c. The people of Tapeandurian are represented as very ferocious,
and the sea-coast hereabout requires surveying.

The ports of Pasir and Coti originally belonged to the King of
Benjarmasing; very fine birds'-nests are procured here at twenty
dollars the catty; much gold, tripan, wax, &c.

Were Borneo to be settled, I think the principal factory ought to be
at Borneo Proper; the second at Sambas; the third at Benjarmasing;
the fourth at Pasir; the fifth at Tabesan or Sandakan.

In looking over the map of the world, it is a melancholy reflection to
view so large a portion of the habitable globe as all Borneo abandoned
to barbarism and desolation; that, with all her productive wealth
and advantages of physical situation, her valuable and interesting
shores should have been overlooked by all Europeans; that neither
the Dutch nor the Portuguese, with centuries of uncontrolled power in
these seas, should have shed a ray of civilization on shores bordering
upon their principal settlements; that her ports and rivers, instead
of affording a shelter to the extensive commerce of China, should
at this enlightened period of the world hold out only terror and
dismay to the mariner; and that all that she should have acquired
from the deadly vicinage and withering grasp of Dutch power and
dominion has been the art of more speedily destroying each other,
and rendering themselves obnoxious to the rest of mankind. Now that
her destinies are transferred to the enlightened heads and liberal
hearts of Englishmen,--now that her fortunes