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Tan Siang. This having been effected, they both attacked the beaten 
Kongsee, and after killing 700 of their number, drove that Kongsee 
from their houses and mines, and ultimately from the country. 
“3. That about seven years afterwards, or in the first moon of the 
eleventh year Hong Chee, corresponding to the year 1866, the Headmen 
of the Tan Siang Kongsee entered into an agreement with their own 
people, 15,000 in number, to destroy your Petitioners’ Kongsee, See Yip, 
which did not number more than 8000 men. They fought, and your 
Petitioners’ Kongsee beat the other, who took refuge in the Mantri’s 
fort, and captured this agreement. 
‘a, The Mantri ordered the Tan Siang, the beaten Kongsee, to 
continue the fight, but they were again unsuccessful, and, with the 
exception of eight of their headmen, who took refuge with and were 
protected by the Mantri, they all ran away. 
“5, After the fight was over, your Petitioners, the headmen of the 
See Yip Kongsee, carried the agreement they had taken to the Mantni, 
but he refused to listen to them, and sent the eight Tan Siang Headmen 
off to a place called Teong. ‘ | 
‘6. The See Yip Kongsee were the first to open mines at Larut, 
and unless set upon by others have always lived peaceably and quietly, 
while the Tan Siang people are robbers, and have become so in conse- 
quence of the counsel of, and their subsequent connection with, the 
Mantri. 
‘7 For nine months after the said first moon of the r1th year Hong 
Chee there was no fighting. After that. the Mantri entered into an 
agreement with a Kongsee named Ong Tye You. On the 13th of the 
same moon and year he called the Headmen of the Kongsee See Yip 
to come to his house. They went, and as soon as they had entered, 
he ordered the Ong Tye You people to make a sudden attack on the See 
Yip, who, being unprepared and without their Headmen, suffered severely, 
and out of their 8000 men, had about 2000 killed in and about their 
houses and mines. As the remaining 6000, who were compelled to run 
for it, must necessarily go by the overland (Krean) route to Penang, 
the Mantri had ordered the Datus along that route to kill these poor men, 
and of these 6000 men, about, 3000 were killed, either by these Datus, 
by hunger, by fatigue, or by wild heasts. Their women, who accom- 
panied them, were sold as slaves, and not more than 3000 succeeded in 
reaching Penang. 
‘8, Of these 3000 men, about 600 or 800, unable to obtain work or 
food at Penang, returned to Larut. On their arrival, the Ong Tye You 
Kongsee again attacked them, but the See Yip people, being on their 
guard, they, the Ong Tye You men, though 4000 in number, were driven 
back to the Mantri’s house, and many of them killed. 
‘g. Fifteen days after this occurred, the Mantri brought from 
different places about 2500 Malays, whom he ordered to fight along 
with the Ong Tye You people, and destroy the See Yip men. They 
fought for ten days, with doubtful success, until at length the See Yip 
men beat and drove them into the fort. 
