the Pasir pirates; 4th, the Sulo pirates;
5th, the Illano, or pirates on the Isle of Magindano.

I shall, from memory, cite such few of their depredations as I
recollect.

In 1774, says Forrest, the British were expelled from their infant
settlement of Balambangan by an insurrection of the Sulos, who,
finding the garrison weak and sickly, unprepared and off their guard,
murdered and plundered them, and set fire to their settlement:--this
was in return for having released their sultan from prison, and
reestablished him on the musnud of his ancestors. In 1800, Captain
Pavin and a boat's crew were cruelly murdered in the palace of the
Sultan of Sulo while the commander was drinking a cup of chocolate:
they fired upon the ship Ruby, but did not succeed in capturing her. In
1810, they plundered the wreck of the ship Harrier of a valuable cargo:
several of her crew are still in slavery at Bagayan Sulo. In 1788,
the ship May of Calcutta, 450 tons burden, Captain Dixon, was cut off
at Borneo Proper: they were invited up to the town with the ship,
and while at dinner, the sultan and his people fell upon them, and
murdered Captain Dixon, three officers, and ten Europeans; the lascars
were retained in slavery, the valuable cargo plundered, and the ship
burnt. In 1803 the ship Susanna of Calcutta, Captain Drysdale, was
cut off near Pontiana by the Sambas and Borneo pirates; the Europeans
were all massacred, and the vessel taken. In 1769, Captain Sadler,
with his boat's crew, was murdered by the Sambas pirates off Mompava,
having a prodigious quantity of gold-dust: they did not succeed in
cutting off the ship. In 1806, Mr. Hopkins and crew, of the Commerce,
were murdered by the pirates of Borneo Proper; the ship was plundered
by them and the Sambas pirates. In 1810, Captain Ross was cut off. In
1811, Captain Graves was cut off by the Pasir pirates with a rich
cargo. In 1812, the enormities of Pangeran Annam have out-heroded
Herod: these are too recent to require recapitulation. Independent
of his depredations on the Coromandel, a Portuguese ship, &c., nine
Europeans of the Hecate have been seized and made slaves; two have
been since murdered; two have escaped; and five are hamstrung and
otherwise maimed. Mrs. Ross and her son are still in slavery there.

The Tampasuk pirates, belonging to the Rajah of Borneo Proper, aiding
and abetting Pangeran Annam against the English, are Datu Akop,
Datu Aragut, and Datu Jumbarang, with ten l