Also about: the murder of Amoral, Governor of Macao (Macau), and the state of revolt of the Chinese against the Portuguese American interest in Labuan coal his meeting with [S.G.] Bonham.

With favourable comments on Alan [Grant].

Also about: expected arrival of Dr Corry, the illness of Harvey correspondence with Helms, deploring his action in raising wages of carpenters importation of Chinese labour Helms's reference to John Brooke Brooke as 'Ruler of the Country' (marked passage), and accusing him of interfering with the internal arrangements of the Company …

Also about the need for copper coins and for the Company to arrange a coinage for Sarawak; and requests relating to domestic equipment and guns for the forts.

Also about: the production of large quantities of antimony ore good account of the rifles and recruitment his brother's illness news from Fox of a report that the Sultan had offered to make Sheriff Musahor Chief of the Rejang and Kabuka, plans relating to this, and a request for advice the possibility of a complete break with…

Also about his fears that the boy would eventually dispossess John Brooke Brooke of his 'promised inheritance'. See Vol. 2, fols. 143-147 for the letters from the Rajah.

Also about: his plans to visit Egan, to move Sheriff Musahor out of that territory the importance of preventing the Bornean people from entering Sarawak the loss of a Dutch barque off Bruit and John Brooke Brooke's action to save the cargo St John's enthusiasm for growing cotton Harvey's agitation about the Company's affairs. …

Also about: damage to the Dutch war steamer Celebes, the protection afforded to Sarawak by Holland, and the possibility of the country coming under the Dutch flag problems concerning mining of coal, and the astonishing behaviour of the Company's directors regarding the Coal Royalty John Brooke Brooke's approval of the proposition to send Hindus to Sarawak to develop the…

Also about: action taken also by the Dutch the case of a debtor, a 'madman' named Badur protest against the Company re-crediting themselves with royalty, and alarm at the state of Sarawak's finances John Brooke Brooke's view that English law made slavery an insuperable difficulty to 'handing over' Sarawak to the Crown his wish for the…

Also about: the Dyak communities' desire for 'trade and quiet' Dutch action against Lanun 'pirates' John Brooke Brooke's proposal that his son Basil, not being a British subject, might be recognised as Rajah in preference to a 'Brunei Puppet' the flourishing timber trade the need for a storehouse for imported European goods …

Also about: the need for greater revenue to pay police and European officers, and for a steamer the size of the debt to the Borneo Company Charles [Johnson]'s action against the Sarebus (Saribas) 'pirates', and preparation for a great 'Balla' to attack them in the interior the expected arrival of Sheriff Musahor, and lack of proof that the Sultan had…

Also about: the arrival of Law Books from the Rajah but not of seeds he had despatched the arrival of the Pentys, and the departure of Chambers and his wife his own wish and that of the Malayan (Malaysian) people for protection against, rather than by, the Dutch, and for English protection in return for an agreement 'never to hand the country over to another Power' …

Also about: John Brooke Brooke's hope that he might take on the work of negotiating with the government his melancholy state and need to get away from Sarawak the peaceful condition of the country the result of the Deputation to Lord Derby the Dutch Government's determination not to interfere 'the Corry business' to…

Also about the Company's refusal to advance any money; and John Brooke Brooke's sufferings and self-doubts.

Also about The Times article; and the poor health of his mother and his sister Emma Evelyn.

With reference to his anxiety about: the proposed loan of £10,000 whether, if the Rajah received a sum of money, he intended to carry on the government himself or to devolve it on John Brooke Brooke. Also about: the financial position of Sarawak, and his hopes…

Also about: John Brooke Brooke's favourable view of a public appeal the urgent need for money John Brooke Brooke's wish that the Rajah would leave matters in his hands.