Equal justice was awarded to Malay, Chinaman, and Dyak.

The remorseless pirates from the rivers farther east were punished, and finally shut up within their own territories, and the Dyak, for the first time, could sleep in peace.
His wife and children were now safe from slavery; his house was no longer burned over his head; his crops and his fruits were now his own to sell or consume as he pleased.

And the unknown stranger who had done all this for them, and asked for nothing in return, what could he be?
How was it possible for them to realize his motives?
Was it not natural that they should refuse to believe he was a man?
For of pure benevolence combined with great power, they had had no experience among men.

They naturally concluded that he was a superior being, come down upon earth to confer blessings on the afflicted.

In many villages where he had not been seen, I was asked strange questions about him.