ly aroused from
sound sleep by a Dyak war-yell, which was immediately responded to by
the whole force. It was pitch dark: the interior of our farmhouse, the
partitions of which had been removed for the convenience of stowage,
was crowded to excess. In a moment every man was on his legs: swords,
spears, and krisses dimly glittered over our heads. It is impossible
to describe the excitement and confusion of the succeeding ten minutes:
one and all believed that we had been surrounded by the enemy, and cut
off from our main party. I had already thrust the muzzle of my pistol
close to the heads of several natives, whom, in the confusion, I had
mistaken for Sakarrans; and as each in his turn called out "Tiga,"
I withdrew my weapon to apply it to somebody else; until, at last,
we found that we were all "Tigas." I had prevented Eager, more than
once, from sounding the alarm, which, from the first, he had not
ceased to press me for permission to do. The Dyak yell had, however,
succeeded in throwing the whole force afloat into a similar confusion,
and not hearing the signal, they concluded that they, and not we,
were the party attacked. The real cause we afterward ascertained to
have arisen from the alarm of a Dyak, who dreamt, or imagined, that he
felt a spear thrust upward through the bamboo-flooring of our building,
and immediately gave his diabolical yell. The confusion was ten times
as much as it would have been had the enemy really been there. So
ended the adventures of the night in the wild jungle of Borneo.

CHAPTER XIX.

Seriff Muller's town sacked.--Ascend the river in pursuit
of the enemy.--Gallant exploit of Lieutenant Wade.--His
death and funeral.--Interesting anecdote of him.--Ascend the
Sakarran branch.--Native boats hemmed in by pirates, and their
crews slaughtered to a man.--Karangan destroyed.--Captain
Sir E. Belcher arrives in the Samarang's boats.--Return to
Sarawak.--New expedition against Seriff Sahib and Jaffer.--Macota
captured.--Flight of Seriff Sahib.--Conferences.--Seriff Jaffer
deposed.--Mr. Brooke's speech in the native tongue.--End of the
expedition, and return to Sarawak.--The Dido sails for England.

At daylight we were joined by Lieutenant Wade and Mr. Brooke--their
division making a very acceptable increase to our force--and by
8 o'clock the last barrier was cut through between us and Seriff
Muller's devoted town. With the exception of his own