The Ministry made no attempt to remove the harmful impressions caused by the false step they had so weakly been induced to take; they but confirmed these by making no _amende_, and by withdrawing all support, and as the sequel will show, the Commission paved the way for the rebellion of the Chinese, and for the outbreak of disaffected Malays and other natives, aided and incited by intriguing Brunis, which were to follow, and which cost the lives of many Europeans, and great numbers of Chinese and natives, and nearly resulted in the extinction of the raj. With justice the Rajah wrote: "It is a sad thing to say, but true as sad, that England has been the worst opponent of the progress of Sarawak, and is now the worst enemy of her liberty." ----- Footnote 108: The Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies in a rescript, dated January 23, 1846, acknowledged that the exertions during the past twenty-five years effectually to suppress piracy on the coasts of Borneo had not been successful for want of combination, and for having been limited to the western coast. Footnote 109: _A Collection of Voyages_, 1729. Footnote 110: Sulu was the principal market for the disposal of captives and plunder. Footnote 111: A son of Captain Francis Light, who founded Penang in 1786, was named Lanoon, he having been born on the island at the time it was being blockaded by Lanun pirates. Footnote 112: Dayak war-boats, some having as many as 75 to the crew. Footnote 113: _Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido_, 1847. Footnote 114: On behalf of the Sultan, Saribas and Sekrang being beyond Rajah Brooke's jurisdiction. Footnote 115: Keppel, _op. cit._ Footnote 116: These Sea-Dayaks, together with those of the Undup, also an affluent of the Batang Lupar, subsequently became the mainstay of the Government against the Saribas and Sekrangs. Footnote 117: _Life of Sir James Brooke_, p. 84. Footnote 118: Sir Edward's report upon Sarawak appears to have been favourable; he pronounced the coal at Bruni, which he never examined, to be unworkable, and the Sultan to be a savage. Footnote 119: Pronounced by the natives _Achi_. Footnote 120: More correctly Putusan, or Pemutus. We retain the old spelling. Footnote 121: These guns realised £900 at public auction in Singapore. Footnote 122: