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• Title: Piracy Against the Sambas Pirates""? the Case of Captain Burnside--and What Happened to Him Afterwards in the Antipodes (Research Notes)"
• Author : Borneo Research Bulletin
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Science & Nature,Life Sciences,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 111 KB

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Introduction This article describes and analyzes an accusation of piracy made in 1806 by the Sultan of Sambas, in northwestern Borneo, against Captain Anthony Burnside, an Irishman, who was then a trader based in Calcutta. (1) It provides an unexpected counterpoint to my recent examination of accusations of piracy committed by Sambas from the end of the eighteenth century until the return of the Dutch to Borneo in 1818 (Smith 2007). The accusation against Burnside was uncovered in a search for information about Borneo in the on-line catalogue of records of the English East India Company (EIC) held in the British Library. (2) in a wider context, the material gives new insight into the relations at the time between the E1C Supreme Government in Calcutta, and the authorities in Penang. In addition, Burnside's subsequent brief time in Sydney provides a footnote to the early colonial history of Australia, particularly with respect to his financial dealings with some prominent personalities and to the economic circumstances at the time. Last, there is some irony in Burnside's eventual fate in New Zealand and popular beliefs that have arisen from it without (as far as I am aware) knowledge of his previous activities in Borneo.

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