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other five pirate vessels parted company from them to go over to Billiton and Banca Strait, and doubtless they too will carry their depredations right up into the Straits of Singapore, and pick up English subjects and injure English trade, as those we met have done.

But, apart from all our local feelings about, and dangers from, these people, it makes an Englishman out here ashamed to feel that his own dear country, which he would fain regard as the liberator of the slave and the avenger of the wronged, is in truth doing nothing against the system, fraught with incalculable misery to so large a section of the human race. For it must be remembered that the slavery these people suffer is far more crushing to them than the African, who is taken as a savage to serve civilised, and, at least nominally, Christian masters; but these are generally well-to-do men of civilised nations, who are made the slaves of utter fiends, who work and torture them to death in one year only, to replace them by fresh victims whom they capture the next. It is, indeed, va victis with them, and I think it is the duty of every Christian man and every Christian nation to do all that can be done to rid the earth of such horrible and dangerous monsters, and to punish the Sultan of Sooloo, and all who abet and aid them. The Dutch and Spaniards are always doing something, but not enough, and during the last four or five years these pirate fleets have been gradually getting more and more numerous and daring on these coasts, and now it is for England to rouse herself and complete the work of putting them down. Labuan is near their haunts, and it might be done from thence. A few thousands spent out here yearly for the purpose would, I believe in my heart, soon effect much more real and lasting good than the millions which are being spent on the coast of Africa. All honour is due to Sir James Brooke and his nephew, the Rajah Mudah, and the other officers of the Sarawak Government, who, in spite of misrepresentation and factious opposition, through evil report and good report, have persevered for years in constant, steady, and systematic efforts to put down piracy on this coast, and chastise these villainous marauders whenever they come into Sarawak waters.

If the English Government will now act with and assist us, we shall soon clear the Sarawak and Labuan waters of these pests. Assisted by the experience and knowledge of our natives, the work would be done surely and effectually, but, single-handed, the Sarawak Government, notwithstanding all it has done, cannot carry it out. We want

means ; if England or Englishmen will give us that, we shall gladly do the work, and feel that we are delivering our fellow-men, and doing our duty to God, who has commanded us to free the captive and deliver the oppressed; while at the same time we shall be averting a danger which is ever threatening us at our own doors, and has so long crippled the energies and resources of this country. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

Sarawak May 27, 1862.

F. T. LABUAN.

INDEX.

ABE

ABE, widow and children, 333

" Alfred,' s.s., 99

Alma, battle of the, 99
Amuck, 177

Archbishop Longley, 97, 228, 233
Tait, 239, 310, 328

Archdeacon, 298
Armstrong, Mrs., 160
Austen, Admiral, 64

BADGELLY, Rev. C. H., 335
Banda, the Datu, 74, 145, 151
Barker, Captain, R.N., 83
Beresford-Hope, Lady Mildred and
Mr., 209, 329, 342
Bevan, Rev. Canon, 13, 14
'Beverley,' the, 102
Bickersteth, Rev. E., 20

Bishop Harold Browne, Ely, 298;
and Winchester, 313
Baring, of Durham, 228
Blomfield, of London, 16, 97
Cotton, of Calcutta, 214
Goodwin, of Carlisle, 99
Hose, of Singapore, 249
- Jackson, of Lincoln, 240

- Jacobson, of Chester, 15, 86, 97,

240

Mackenzie, 34

Stanley, of Norwich, 21, 22
Wilberforce, of Oxford, 239
Wilson, of Calcutta, 71, 72, 74, 79,
100, 113

Bishopric for Borneo, 86, 96, 100

of Labuan, 112, 113

of Sarawak, 114, 243, 263
of Singapore, 251

Borneo, climate of, 34

Company, 210, 315

Church Mission, 21, 79, 87
Bowman, Sir W., 8, 209, 237, 268
Bramston, Dean, 330, 348

Brereton, Rev. C. D., 29, 31, 65, 95

BRO

Brereton, Mr. W., 29, 69, 104
British Museum, 19
Brooke, Basil, 219

Brooke, Captain (Rajah Mudah),
expeditions of, 73, 76; attendance
on Rajah, 106, 178; marriage and
loss of his wife, 180; treats with
English Government, 203; second
marriage and loss of wife, 219, 224;
differences with Rajah, 243; death,
244

Brooke, Rajah Sir James: his early
career, 22; meets the McDougalls
at Sarawak, 29; lays foundation of
church, 49; has Labuan fever, 51;
takes Mr. and Mrs. McDougall to
Penang Hill, 57; writes on organi-
sation of mission, 60; embassy to
Siam, 70; makes up loss on the
exchange to mission, 79 ; interest in
schools, 80; proposes bishopric of
Sarawak, 86, 102; attacked by
small-pox, 105; life at Sarawak,
123, 127, 135; his library there,
124; his politics, 127; friendship
for the McDougalls, 126; writes of
suppression of Chinese revolt, 144;
good offices to the Dutch, 158;
returns to England, 174; is struck
by paralysis, 176; seeks a protec-
torate for Sarawak, 188; letter as
to position of Sarawak, 204; with
Bishop in London, 209; appoints
Captain Brooke Rajah Mudah, 211;
quarrels with him, 243; correspond-
ence with Bishop, 1863 and 1864,
245, 257; death, 277

Brooke, Sir Charles Johnson, 109,
151, 157; takes charge of Govern-
ment, 181, 189, 250; his book on
Sarawak, 247; becomes Rajah and
G.C.M.G., 250

'Brooke, the Sir James,' s.s., 144,
163

BRU

Brunei, visit to, 187

Bullock, Rev. W. T., 240, 266, 276
Bunyon, Mr. R. J., 15, 73

CALCUTTA, Consecration at, 113
Carus, Rev. W., 332

Cave, Right Hon. Stephen, 14

Chambers, Bishop, 81, 183, 276, 277
Chambers, Mrs., 120, 171

Channel Islands, 322

China, visits to, 89, 273

Chinese workmen, 35

children, 67

converts, 90, 149, 156, 160
immigrants, 66, 160

insurrection, 90; account of, by
Bishop, 139, 146; suppression of,
by Rajah, 144

teacher, Ayoon, 73

Cholera at Sarawak, 169, 172, 260

Church at Sarawak, 71

Colenso, Bishop. See Natal

Colenso, Mr. T. B., 45

Commission on piracy, 107
Conroy, Dr., 212

Consecration of churches, 271, 272
Convocation, 325

Cromwell, Oliver, and Carlyle, 302
Crookshank, Mr., 37, 184

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367

MAC

McDougall, Admiral, 1

McDougall, Charlie, birth at Norwich,
death at Ipswich, 95

McDougall, Francis Thomas, parent-
age, I; training at Corfu and Malta,
2, 4; the pet of the regiment, 5;
his mother's teaching, 6; choice
of a profession, 7; medical studies
at Malta, 8; at King's College,
9, 10, 12, 15; at Oxford, 13;
present at accident at Iffley,
14; degrees, 15; marriage, 15;
ordination, 16; appointment at
British Museum, 19; accepts charge
of Borneo Church Mission, 21;
leaves England, 26; run down in
Channel, 26; acts as chaplain and
surgeon on board, 28; arrives at
Sarawak, 29; establishes dispen-
sary, 31, 66; plans mission build-
ings and church, 32; plans home
school, 38; plans hospital, 66; ac-
companies Captain Brooke into
interior, 76; visits Hongkong, 85;
returns to England, 94; chosen as
Bishop, 97; returns to Sarawak,
106; visits stations of clergy, 109;
consecrated Bishop of Labuan at
Calcutta, 113; appointed Bishop
of Sarawak by Rajah, 115; visits
Labuan, 118, 168, 172, 186;
catches fever there, 118; difficul-
ties from scepticism, 124; his me-
thod with offenders, 125; describes
Chinese insurrection, 139, 146;
sympathy thereon at home, 160;
holds ordination at Sarawak, 176;
on death of Mrs. Brooke, 178; on
Government difficulties, 175, 189 et
seq.; receives the cutter 'Sara-
wak Cross,' 185; relates the history
of the Malay plot, 193; returns to
England, 207; testimonials to, from
Rajah and Europeans, 210; on his
medical labours in Borneo, 211;
advocates removal of mission to
Singapore, 213; returns overland
to Sarawak, 216; encounters Illanun
pirates, 225; letter to 'Times' there-
on, Appendix; controversy there-
on, 227 et seq.; his opinions on
differences between the Rajah and
his nephew, 243; replaces Sara-
wak Cross' by the Fanny,' 256;
holds synods at Sarawak, 260 et
seq. views as to dependence of
missionary dioceses, 263; attacked
by heart disease, 267, 269; ordered

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home, 273; resigns bishopric and
accepts Godmanchester vicarage,
276; experiences at Godmanchester,
289 et seq.; correspondence with
Bishop of Natal, 294; goes to Ely,
298; and becomes canon residen-
tiary, 299; appointed Archdeacon
of Huntingdon, 298; completes
canonry house at Ely, 306; trans-
ferred to canonry at Winchester
and archdeaconry of Isle of Wight,
and resigns Godmanchester, 313;
becomes vicar successively of Mil-
ford, 313, and Shorwell, 334; con-
firms in Channel Islands, 321; and
abroad, 327; defends memory of
Rajah Brooke, 324; attendances
at Court, 325; undertakes charge
of widow and children of Borneo
missionary, 332; severe illness at
Ventnor, 341; loses his wife, 342;
death, 348

McDougall, General, I
McDougall, Harriette, character of,
18; on value of scientific acquire-
ments, 16; first experience of her
husband's preaching, 17; interferes
to allow her husband to go to
Borneo, 19; describes voyage and
arrival, 27, 28; on value of educa-
tion in Christian country, 30; on
character required by a missionary,
46; exerts herself for the schools
at Sarawak, 38, 40, 44, 222, 271;
loses her infant, 43, 52, 62, 92; her
boy Harry, 55; her loneliness at
Sarawak, 69; on receipt of boxes
from home, and the wonders that may
take place in a Christian church, 70;
breaks her arm at Singapore, 93;
loses her eldest child, 95; birth of
Mab and three other children, 96,
178, 209; intercourse with Malay
ladies, 128, 182; teaches the choir,
135, 271; describes solitudes in
Borneo, 136; adventures during
Chinese insurrection, 141 et seq.;
mentions the Indian mutiny, 163;
encounters cholera in absence of
Bishop, 170; her courage in times
of panic, 177, 201; describes and la-
ments the death of Mrs. Brooke, 180;
returns home round the Cape, 208;
returns to Sarawak, January 1862,
216; writes to her child her receipt
for self-consolation, 219; receives
infant from Mrs. Julia Brooke on
her deathbed, 224; sums up their

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