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as far as we could see them as they pull standing up and none others do. Their officers were dressed in a figured silk gown with loose trowsers and a hat like a Market basket. The Cochin China Men of War are employed in Commerce at present and every year bring 2 cargoes of rice to this place, three of them came in whilst we were here. several English steamers were laying here also. some of them had been built on purpose for the China War they were built drawing 4 feet water and with powerful engines they were intended to run up alongside of a bank and shove out a staging over the side or down to land troops They succeeded admirably staying at the London Hotel was a Capt Berthune of H B M Navy. he was going out as Commissioner to see about settling the islands of Borneo. At the close of the troubles in Europe. The English made a treaty with the Dutch agreeing to give up all they had taken from the Dutch. viz the Islands of Java & Sumatra and not to Colonize Borneo, about 6 monts [sic] since a private gentleman took his Yatch with about 100 men and went up one of the rivers surveying on his return he found a battery at every bend of the river and thousands of Natives on the banks armed with spears, stones, Bows and Muskets. he fought his way for about 60 miles and was at last killed by a round shot cutting him in two parts his vessels was very much cut to pieces and came into this place in distress. The English government sent out a few vessels to revenge his death and succeeded in killing about 500 of the Natives and burning half a dozen towns, now they are sending out a commissioner to settle not the Main Island but a large Island 3 miles from the main land and at the Mouth of Borneo River and in such a situation as to command the harbour of the City of Borneo. tis said to be very sickly. The English during their expedition experience a great deal of trouble from the Natives who would lurk in the jungles and with their blow guns would stick poisoned arrows into the men or sentries. these arrows from a slight prick would nearly always produce death in a few hours. The poison used is the juice of a green pine apple.