“Free passage to Singapore” granted to ARW and permission sought “to visit the Dutch and Spanish settlements in the Eastern Seas.” A place is available on a “ship of War” headed for Trincomalee “but no further.”
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“Free passage to Singapore” granted to ARW and permission sought “to visit the Dutch and Spanish settlements in the Eastern Seas.” A place is available on a “ship of War” headed for Trincomalee “but no further.”
ARW declines offer of passage “from Trincomalee to Singapore & [then] to Borneo” as taking too much time and expense, and “should prefer waiting for another opportunity.”
Relating postponement of ARW’s expedition until following November.
ARW should inform when he intends to leave on his expedition; no vessels are scheduled for Singapore after November and passage may not then be available.
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Brooke requests a copy of ARW’s papers relating to Sarawak and Sadong. [Wallace, A. R. 1856. Notes of a Journey Up the Sadong River, North-West Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1(6): 193-205.]
Brooke returns ARW’s papers relating to Sarawak and Sadong. [Wallace, A. R. 1856. Notes of a Journey Up the Sadong River, North-West Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1(6): 193-205.] He is critical of ARW’s views on the tendency of the Dayaks towards extinction. Brooke is unwell and expresses a “cool” attitude towards the signs of death.