East, extensively describing the Northern towns, the scenery, the plight of the native Laplanders, and Russian officials he encountered and including numerous sketches of them. Pioneering in the Far East In 1882, Helms was living in London and published Pioneering in the Far East and Journeys to California in 1849 and to the White Sea in 1878, a history of his adventures in Southeast Asia, Sarawak, and California. The book also attempted to impartially chronicle the dispute between Rajah James Brooke and his nephew, John Brooke Johnson Brooke, which resulted in the disinheriting of the latter. The book generally received good reviews, and is still in print today. Later life Helms returned to Sarawak around 1890, where he prospected for various ores, and was in Malaysia around 1899–1903, where he was involved in establishing the Temelong Hydraulic Tin Mining Company. The mine failed in 1903, and he eventually returned to London, where he stayed until he died in Hampstead on July 26, 1918. References 1825 births 1918 deaths People from Varde Municipality