[208]. Hueh, or Hui, is the Chinese word for a secret society.
[209]. Tien, heaven—ti, earth.
[210]. It is still part of the oath of the initiated, "I will use my utmost endeavour to drive out the Chheng and establish the Beng dynasty."—"Pickering, Chinese Secret Societies," in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1878.
[211]. Pickering, who knew a good deal about the Society and wrote thereon, had his life attempted, and, though not killed, was badly crippled.
[212]. Tai-pi-kong was the name of the joss.
[213]. The Chinese, holding the Rajah to be invulnerable, and being greatly in fear of him, purposely left the exit by the door of the bathroom unguarded.
[214]. He had joined the Sarawak service the year before. He was a brother of Colonel Nicholetts, who was married to a sister of the present Rajah.
[215]. A Mr. Wellington was killed trying to defend Mrs. Middleton and her children. He was a clerk in the Borneo Company, and had only lately joined.
[216]. St. John says thirty-seven, five of whom died before the Bishop's arrival.
[217]. Spenser St. John, Life of Sir James Brooke, to whom we are mainly indebted for the following particulars we give of the insurrection.