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Updated: May 9, 2025
Perhaps had she known of the high walls, the quiet gardens, and the silent nuns of the Samarang convent, where her destiny was leading her, she would have sought death in her dread and hate of such a restraint.
As soon as the two rajahs, with all their wives and suite, &c., could be got on board of the Phlegethon, Mr. Brooke, and Mr. Williamson the interpreter, came on board the Samarang, and we sailed. On our arrival at the island of Labuan, we anchored the ship, and despatched the steamer, with her cargo, up to Bruni.
Departure of Captain Keppel, and arrival of Sir E. Belcher. Mr. Brooke proceeds, with Muda Hassim, in the Samarang to Borneo. Labuan examined. Returns to Sarawak. Visit of Lingire, a Sarebus chief. The Dyaks of Tumma and Bandar Cassim. Meets an assembly of Malays and Dyaks. Arrival of Lingi, as a deputation from the Sakarran chiefs. The Malay character. Excursion up the country.
For many years the peasants of the region between Samarang and Boro-Boedoer paid their taxes in gold melted from the treasure trove turned up by the plough, or dug from the precincts of some forgotten sanctuary, buried beneath the rank vegetation of the teaming soil.
"But I must shake off all this lethargy of gloom, dearest, dearest girl how can I dare to call you so? Let me, therefore, rush for comfort into other thoughts; and tell you at once of the fearful dangers we have now mercifully escaped; for the Samarang lies like a log in this friendly port, dismasted, and next to a wreck.
She was lying far out in the bay, amidst a crowd of shipping of every kind coal-hulks, black and grimy; H.M.S. Samarang, receiving-ship, and home of the captain of the port; British vessels, steamers and sailing-ships, of every rig; foreign craft of every aspect native to its waters: zebecques, faluchas, and polaccas, with their curved spars and heavy lateen sails.
"Not very. Not quite eight months," I told him. "I left a ship in Samarang with a hurt back, and have been in the hospital in Singapore some weeks." He sighed. "Trade is very bad here." "Indeed!" "Hopeless! . . . See these geese?" With the hand holding the letters he pointed out to me what resembled a patch of snow creeping and swaying across the distant part of his compound.
"She came right back, too; said that's just where she wants to go. She was urging me to sell her a berth when you came in and saved me." Little glanced out again then suddenly pulled Barry from the window. "Come out and watch the crowd," he said. "Some of these people are worth watching. The Samarang train is due."
They were all got off safely the same night, and Captain Pellew, after arranging with the Governor of Samarang for sending on shore the prisoners, who far outnumbered his own crew, returned to port with his prizes.
We examined him very carefully, and at last we unfortunately discovered that he was fixed on a board with four wheels. Wheels naturally reminded us that they were vehicles of locomotion; the pig could move that was certain and we decided that, if possible, pig must go on board of the Samarang.
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