rose into sight and faded from our view, and the bright phosphorescent light of the sea cut by our prow, and which, despite the clearness of the night, was sometimes almost too brilliant to be gazed at.  When we dropped our anchor, the captain still professed to doubt whether or not he would have to proceed immediately; but he gave me to understand that, if he could not accomplish this, he would not wish to leave until twelve to- day, so that I should in that case have an opportunity of landing and ascending the mountain summit.  On this hint I had a bed prepared on deck (fearing the heat of the cabins), and tried, though rather in vain, to take a few hours’ sleep.  At five A.M.  I was told that the Resident, Mr. Lewis, was on board, that carriages and horses were ready, and that, if I wished to mount the hill, the time had arrived for the operation.  I immediately made a hasty toilette, and set forth accompanied by the General, some of the others following.  We were conveyed in a carriage three miles, to the foot of the hill, and on pony-back as much more up it, through a dense tropical vegetation which reminded me of my Jamaica days.  At the end of the ride we arrived at the Government bungalow, and found one of the most magnificent views I ever witnessed; in the foreground this tropical luxuriance, and beyond, far below, the glistening sea studded with ships and boats innumerable, over which again the Malay peninsula with its varied outline.  I had hardly begun to admire the scene, when a gentleman in a blue flannel sort of dress, with a roughish beard and a cigar in his mouth, made his appearance, and was presented to me as the Bishop of Labuan!  He was there endeavouring to recruit his health, which has suffered a good deal.  He complained of the damp of the climate, while admitting its many charms, and seemed to think that he owed to the dampness a very bad cold by which he was afflicted.  Soon afterwards his wife joined us.  They were both at Sarawak when the last troubles took place, and must have had a bad time of it.  The Chinese behaved well to them; indeed they seemed desirous to make the Bishop their leader.  His converts (about fifty) were stanch, and he has a school at which about the same number of Chinese boys are educated.  These facts pleaded in his favour, and it says something for the Chinese that they were not insensible to these claims.  They committed some cruel acts, but they certainly might have committed more.  They respected the women except one (Mrs. C., whom they wounded severely), and they stuck by the Bishop until they found that he was trying to bring Brooke back.  They then turned upon him, and he had to run for his life.  The Bishop gave me an interesting description of his school of Chinese boys.  He says they are much more like English boys than other Orientals:  that when a new boy comes they generally get up a fight, and let him earn his place by his prowess.  But there is no managing them without pretty severe