em, until they were
rooted out and utterly destroyed.

To other questions they replied, that although the chief held
communication, and was in the habit of cruising with the people
of the other settlements of Pakoo and Rembas, still they could not
hold themselves responsible for their good conduct; and as both held
strongly fortified positions (of course supposed by themselves to be
impregnable), they did not think that they would abstain altogether
from piracy unless we visited and inflicted a similar chastisement
to that they themselves had suffered. They also stated that, although
they never would again submit to the orders of the great and powerful
chiefs, Seriffs Sahib and Muller, still they could not join in any
expedition against them or their old allies, their blood-thirsty and
formidable neighbors in the Sakarran river.

On our return to the still smoking ruins of the once picturesque town
of Paddi, we found that Seriff Jaffer, with his 800 warriors, had
not been idle. The country round had been laid waste. All had been
desolated, together with their extensive winter-stores of rice. It
was a melancholy sight; and, for a moment, I forgot the horrid acts
of piracy and cruel murders of these people, and my heart relented
at what I had done--it was but for a few minutes.

Collecting our forces, we dropped leisurely down the river, but not
without a parting yell of triumph from our Dyak force--a yell that
must have made the hearts of those quail whose wives and children
lay concealed in the jungle near to where we had held our conference.

We arrived at Boling soon after midnight, where we found the tope,
with our provision, quite safe. Several shots had been fired at her
the night before; and large parties had repeatedly come down to the
banks, and endeavored to throw spears on board.

At daylight (Wednesday, 14th) we lost no time in completing to four
days' provisions, and starting, with the flood-tide, for Pakoo. It
took us until late in the evening before we appeared in sight of two
newly-built stockades, from which the pirates fled, panic-struck,
without firing a shot, on our first discharge. We had evidently come
on them before they were prepared, as we found some of the guns in
the forts with the slings still on by which they had been carried.

The positions of the forts here, as at Paddi, were selected with great
judgment; and had their guns been properly served, it would have been
sharp work for boat