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the Patingi All, whose heroic courage is narrated in the 

 Narrative of the Expedition of the Dido. 



Pangeran Alla-ed-din and the Nakodah had been 

 summoned to hear a copy of the letter read, but on our 

 arrival, the former only had come, so the proceedings 

 went on without the other, his partner in mischief having 

 been previously warned to convey the substance of it 

 to him. All present and the hall and verandahs 

 were crowded seemed very much pleased with it, and 

 on its being finished, a murmur of approbation ran 

 through the crowd. That which most delighted them, 

 was the promise of assistance from the Rajah of 

 Sarawak, in resisting the illegal demands of such men 

 as those then in the town, whose people were at that 

 moment acting in opposition to the request it con- 

 tained. 



Pafigeran Alla-ed-din had sent a tertawak (a musical 

 instrument resembling a gong), two or three days 

 before our arrival up the country to the Dyaks, for 

 which he demanded forty dollars in money, well 

 knowing that there was not a tenth of that amount 

 amongst all their tribes. The real value of the tertawak 

 was about ten dollars. On being informed by the 

 Dyaks that they had no money, he said, that in that 

 case he would take Padi, to the amount of one hundred 

 dollars, in exchange, and ordered them to pay it im- 

 mediately : of this we had been told by all the residents 

 at Kalekka. Williamson accused the Pangeran of this 

 before the assembled people, and though the fact was so 

 notorious, he instantly, and in a loud voice, denied 



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