Inscribed by the artist, as title, and mounted with ZBA4897 on page 23 (recto) in Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855). Fanshawe spent about four days stay in the house mentioned in what is now Brunei at the end of August 1845, accompanying Rajah Brooke who had state business there:

'The town of Brunè or Borneo is twelve miles up the river. It is built in a beautiful reach of the river of the same name. The houses line the outer edge of a shoal mudbank which extends from the shore on each side, leaving a space or sheet of 100 or 150 yards of deep water between them.... The houses are raised on poles about eight or ten feet at low water (when the mud appears), so that high water approaches very near the bottoms of the dwellings.... The only furniture we saw was a table and a few broken chairs, and our mats and pillows to sleep on; but as I had brought my steward with plate chest, wine and all the paraphernalia of good living that I possessed, and the Rajah or Sultan sent us a present of a dinner every day, we fared well. Their dinners always consisted of an omelet, a cock, a curry, a dish of rice and a dish of hard-boiled eggs...'. (Fanshawe [1904] pp.128-29). Two naval straw hats can be seen on the tops of piles on the left, with bedding probably airing. Beyond a red flag flies on the shore with a junk and another vessel moored off. Further right the settlement stretches out against mountainous jungle on the far side of the river on which there is a ceremonial canoe carrying an important person of some sort, and other smaller ones. [PvdM 2/11]