[271]. Miss Agnes Brooke.
[272]. Some were from the Celebes; some from both Southern and Western Borneo; some Javanese; some from the Natuna islands. Amongst them were a nadoka and the crew of a Singapore vessel, and a Malay woman of Singapore and her family. (From an account by the Rajah Muda, which is practically the same as the Bishop's.)
[273]. Some fifty people from Matu, Oya, and Muka were rescued.
[274]. Belitong.
[275]. Ruah Selamat—a prayer of thanksgiving. The pirates now calculated upon being quit of men-of-war, and that the rest of their voyage would be free from danger.
[276]. There were many more people captured between Bruit and Bintulu, but the narrator probably only knew of those captured by the prahu on board of which he was a prisoner; he is at fault, too, as to the number of pirates killed, and captives rescued.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, KAYAN, ETC.
CHAPTER X
THE KAYAN EXPEDITION
