Within a few days after Brooke's return to Kuching, news came that the Arab sharifs were assembling at Banting on the Lingga, the chief village of the Balau Dayaks, under the protection of Sherif Jaffer. The expedition immediately set out and drove off the intruders. Pangiran Badrudin, who was a brother of Rajah Muda Hashim, deposed Sharif Jaffer in the name of the Brunei Government. The country was thus settled under the advice of Brooke, and comparative peace reigned for nearly five years.