Death of Eajah Bbooke. —Sir James Brooke, better known as Rajah Brook *, died on Thursday, 11th June, at his house in Devonshire—-his dream :of. conquering Borneo, and turring .it into an English Java, still unfulfilled. He was a bold, upright-, and somewhat over stern adventurer, with a talent not only for conquering, but for conciliating Eastern races. The Djaks, whom he Bmote so pitilessly to put down piracy, rose at his summons when he was attacked by the Chinese, and extirpated bis enemies, and he reigned in Sarawak an unquestioned despot, without a 'European soldier at his back. Fifty years .ago he would have added a second India to the. Empire and even as it was. he gave the British name a prestige in the'Archipelago which makes the Dutchmen, writhe. Worse men and. feebler have ere this been laid in .Westminster Abbey, but we suppose no claim will-he made for the last Englishman who has'waged .and won-a .private war.— Speotator, 13 th Jane.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 91, 28 September 1868, Page 233
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