The Patinggi was always ready and ever to the fore where tough work and hard knocks were going, and he was the guiding and leading spirit in such expeditions as was this. "Three fingered Jack" the _Dido's_ crew had dubbed him, having that strong regard for him that brave men bear towards another though his skin be of a different complexion—for he had lost two fingers in a former encounter. The type has since changed, and the courtly, intrepid, and determined fighting Malay chief has gone—and he is missed. "I sigh for some of the old hands that could not read or write, but _could_ work, and had more sound wisdom in their little fingers than many popinjay gentlemen of the present day carry in their heads," so wrote the present Rajah ten years ago. Footnote 123: Mr. George Steward, formerly of the H.E.I.C.'s maritime service, had been sent out by the Rajah's agent, Mr. Wise, on a trading venture. He joined the expedition as a volunteer, and had concealed himself in Patinggi Ali's boat, where he should not have been. Footnote 124: Keppel, _op. cit._ We have taken our account of the expedition up the Batang Lupar mainly from Keppel's narrative, the only original history of these operations hitherto published. Footnote 125: He was afterwards pardoned and permitted to reside at Sekrang town, where he died. Footnote 126: Labuan, however, proved a failure as a trading centre, and in that respect has taken a very secondary position to Kuching. Footnote 127: Journals, Keppel, _op. cit._ Footnote 128: The pirates and their supporters, however, preyed upon Islams as well as infidels, and religion was a dead letter to them in this respect. Quite contrary to the tenets of their faith, true believers who were captured were sold into slavery. Footnote 129: The son of Sherip Japar. S. Japar died the following year. Footnote 130: He was married to a niece of Datu Patinggi Gapur. Footnote 131: His son Haji Usup joined the Government service in 1862, and was afterwards appointed Datu Bandar in the Rejang. He died April 1st, 1905, after having served the Government faithfully and with distinction for over forty years. As a magistrate he bore a high reputation. Footnote 132: The ring Bedrudin sent had been given him before he left Sarawak by the Rajah, who told Bedrudin to send it to him when he had need of him; it was seized by the Sultan before Japar escaped from Bruni. Footnote 133: He meant Bruni, which he had hoped to have restored to its former state of prosperity. Footnote 134: Reports had been published that the Rajah was closely besieged in Kuching by the Sultan's forces. Footnote 135: