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SIR JAMES, }. 1803, d. 1868; | bear iventarous English man, who became BI 2 of Sarawak, north-west Borneo. | 181: rved for some years in the army of the | Eng India Company, but gave up his} was i ion and fitted out a ve el at his/ he + sxpense with the view of suppre ing | deat y in the East Indices, Having} of t ed the uncle of the Sultan of Borneo} a hi 1¢ down a rebellion, he was made} mar: of Sarawak, 1841. This — hee id for over 20 years, and by the firm- | kno’ of his rule he ee Tp head- | pop ng and piracy, established law and) Har, and exercised a mite: gid goo nce in his district, nophew | at eded him as a Cor: [s. 82]