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Updated: June 26, 2025
Fruit being in season, helped to support the wretched people, and the near approach of the rice-harvest kept up their spirits." Retrospect of Mr. Brooke's proceeding and prospects. Visit of a pirate fleet. Intercourse with the chief leaders, and other characteristic incidents. War dances. Use of opium. Story of Si Tundo. Preparations for trading. Conditions of the cession of Sarawak.
The time of the rice-harvest was at hand, and with light and joyous hearts our young adventurers launched the canoe, and, guided in their movements by the little squaw, paddled to the extensive aquatic fields to gather it in, leaving Catharine and Wolfe to watch their proceedings from the raft, which Louis had fastened to a young tree that projected out over the lake, and which made a good landing-place, likewise a wharf where they could stand and fish very comfortably.
"Look you, boys," he said, "if I do not return by the beginning of the rice-harvest, you may suppose that evil has befallen me and the girl. Then I would advise you to take care for your own safety; for if they do not respect my gray head, neither will they spare your young ones.
In all the valley towns one sees little houses and platforms, apparently of no practical value, yet occupying important places, while in the period following the rice-harvest elaborate festivals are carried on about them.
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