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departure the Pangeran Budduruddin fired the train, and 

 he, with the two women, was blown up. 



" The manner in which the Sultan Muda Hassim and 

 others of his family were slain, is not detailed ; Japper 

 probably knew of their slaughter only from what he 

 heard : his information being confined to what he was an 

 eye-witness of. After much difficulty the servant Japper 

 got clear of the assassins ; the ring entrusted to his charge 

 is stated to have been taken from him by the Sultan, but 

 where he fell in with the Sultan, and how the latter pos- 

 sessed himself of the ring is left to conjecture. Re- 

 specting the murder of the Rajah Muda Hassim (Sultan 

 Muda) Japper remarks, that " the Sultan and those with 

 him killed the Rajah Muda Hassim and his family/' from 

 which we may infer that the Sultan was present at, and 

 encouraged, the slaughter. 



" The motive of these cruel murders is well known. The 

 Rajah was friendly to the English, which displeased the 

 Sultan, who being under the influence of the Dutch 

 authorities at Batavia, was inimical to the establishment 

 of a British colony in Borneo. In support of the ill 

 feeling entertained by the Sultan to the English, Japper 

 is understood to have stated on oath before Mr. Brooke, 

 that the Sultan had built forts at Borneo Proper, and set 

 the English at defiance ; indeed, to such a length had the 

 Sultan's insolence and treachery proceeded, that in open 

 Durbar he talked of cutting out any English vessel that 

 arrived; in support of this. bravado, Japper declared (on 

 oath) that two vessels were sent down bearing the flag of 

 the Rajah Muda Hassim (the known friend of the En- 

 glish) to entrap H.M.S. ' Hazard ', and murder all on 



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