[134]. Reports had been published that the Rajah was closely besieged in Kuching by the Sultan's forces.
[135]. The foregoing details are mainly taken from Mundy's Rajah Brooke's Journals. The captured cannon were sent to England. St. John says some were melted up to construct cannon for the Crimea.—Forests of the Far East Brunis were famous brass-founders, and many of these guns must have been very old.
[136]. Private Letters of the Rajah.
[137]. His son, the Pangiran Muda, is still alive in Bruni.
[138]. The tribute was cancelled by the release of a debt due to the Rajah by the Sultan, the interest upon which was equivalent to the yearly tribute.
[139]. Though this deed bore the seal of Pangiran Abdul Mumin, he confirmed it by another granted in 1853, after he had become Sultan. Only copies, attested by H.M.'s Consul-General, exist now, the originals, together with the two previous grants, having been burnt during the Chinese rebellion of 1857.
[140]. Letter to the Earl of Clarendon, September 27, 1853.
[141]. Captain Mundy said truly of the Rajah that he was the de facto sovereign of the whole coast of Borneo from point Api (he should have said Cape Datu) to Marudu, 700 miles in extent.
[142]. The territory of Sarawak then extended to Cape Kedurong.
[143]. Mundy, op. cit.