and negotiate better terms with the Borneo Company's directors in the UK. He arrived in London on March 13, 1859. In London, in 1859, he married Anne Amelia Bruce, with whom he had 10 children (Eve Louisa Mathilda, b. 1861; Dora Helen b. 1862; Dagmar b. 1864; Hilda Constance b. 1865; Katharine Annie b. 1868; Mary Sibyl b. 1870; Vera Ewen, b. 1874; Vera, b. 1876; Harold Verner Bruce, b. 1877; Paul Victor, b. 1880). After a visit to his native Denmark, Helms engaged to return to Sarawak for the BCL and returned with his wife on April 17, 1860. Upon his return, he renamed his bungalow on Bukit Mata "Aneberg" in her honor. Muka Pirates Helms participated in the Sarawak Government's struggle with Muka rebels and pirates in 1857–1862, which was dramatically affecting the BCL sago trade. He accompanied Rajah Brooke in September 1857 and sat in on tense negotiations to settle a local feud; and went with Raja Muda John Brooke Johnson Brooke in August 1860 to participate in a perilous meeting with the local leaders for a resumption of trade. He later played a minor role in the Pirate Battle off Muka in May 1862; while visiting a Sago factory at Muka, he observed a large pirate force massing at the entrance to the Muka River. He convinced a native to paddle through the pirate fleet during the night to notify Rajah Muda John Brooke, who then amassed a sizable force on the Steamer Rainbow to attack the pirates in a pitched battle. Helms' role is documented in several contemporary articles, and Helms later recounted the events in his book Pioneering in the Far East. Dispute between James Brooke and John Brooke Johnson Brooke Helms was a first-hand witness to the dispute between Rajah James Brooke and his nephew, Rajah Muda John Brooke Johnson Brooke, which eventually resulted in the disinheritance of the latter, and the removal of his title "Raja Muda". Helms made a point of meticulously documenting the details of the dispute in Pioneering in the Far East, particularly the perspective of John Brooke Johnson Brooke, whom he felt had not been fairly treated. In his preface to Pioneering, he states, I may seem to awaken slumbering controversies and challenge hostile opinion. The references to the dispute between two men, both of whom I knew and admired—Rajah Brooke and his nephew, Captain Brooke—will be uninteresting