[66]. Probably the Kalaka; the Malays in the Rejang came from that river.
[67]. A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, 1718.
[68]. The Dutch confiscated all foreign ships they could seize found trading in the Archipelago without permission from them to do so.
[69]. Borneo and Sumatra were then the great pepper producing countries.
[70]. Forrest, op. cit., confirms this, and adds "the Dutch forbid the natives to manufacture cloth."
[71]. Sir Hugh Low, op. cit.
[72]. Son of the late Sir Hugh Low, G.C.M.G. He served in the Sarawak Civil Service from 1869 to 1887, in which year he died. His knowledge of the natives, their languages, and customs, was unsurpassed. The notes he left formed the basis of Ling Roth's work, The Natives of Borneo, 1896.
[73]. This was the serah, or forced trade formerly in force in all Malayan countries; and it appears to be still so, in a modified form, in Sumatra.
[74]. The Sarawak Malays were also so forced to mine by Pangiran Makota, and this forced labour was one of the principal causes of the rebellion of 1836-40 against the Sultan's Government.
[75]. This happened after this man had been banished by the late Rajah from Sarawak. See Chap. III. p. [87], for the fate he met and so richly merited.