n and steel, quallies, cooking utensils, and other
articles suited to a Malay market--all coarse; no opium. The Borneo
catty is two and a half lbs.

The English have been very desirous of a port in the China seas for
ages past, but have generally appeared to stumble on the most unhealthy
and ill-adapted places possible, such as Balambangan, Pulo Condore,
&c.; and even the principal object of Lord Macartney's embassy was
the obtaining of a cession of this nature. But if a capital harbor,
a navigable and majestic river, a productive country, a healthy site,
population ready formed, and a commerce all sufficient to pay the
expenses of an establishment (within one hundred miles of Balambangan)
is required, the East India Company ought to have pitched upon Borneo
Proper. It was once a most flourishing country, and a very short
period under British auspices would render it the first mart in the
East for China-Malayan commerce. There are large, populous towns of
Moruts, and Orang Idan, who abhor the Malays, but who would be soon
reconciled to a milder and less traitorous government.

Kimanis lies in latitude 5 deg. 8' north; this is the first port on this
coast ceded to the English by the Sultan of Sulo. The town lies ten
miles up the river, at the foot of some of the most beautiful hills
I ever saw, and is inhabited by thirty-five thousand Orang Idan. The
river is small, and almost choked up at the mouth. This province
has the following sea-ports in it, viz., Kimanis, Benome, Papal,
and Pangalat, each governed by Orang Kayas, which still continue
to send their produce to Borneo Proper, consisting of ten piculs
of birds'-nests annually, two hundred piculs of wax, two piculs of
camphor, and cassia, sago, betel-nut, and pepper, as much as required;
tripan, camphor-oil, and rice; with fruit, fish, and provisions,
of sorts which are cheap and plentiful. The articles mentioned as
fit for Borneo answer here, only their produce is had about fifty
per cent cheaper.

The province of Kiney Baulu has the following seaports:--Putatan,
Mangatal, Innanam, Labatuan, Mangabong, Tawaran, Sulaman, Ambung, Abai,
Tampasuk, and Padasan. The whole of this province is tremendously
high. The stupendous mountain of Kiney is about fifteen miles from
Tampasuk, which at present is the most considerable pirate-port in the
Malay seas, and belongs to the Rajah of Borneo Proper. The pirates
frequenting this place have committed such depredations hereabout