24 SKETCH OF EOHNEO. 



chief of Banjar had the title of Panambahan^,* 

 and was of the family of Sumbava. In the 

 course of the first jear^ difFerences occurred 

 bet ween the English and the Natives^ and the 

 Engiish were successfuU^ and sacked üve of 

 their principal campongs, Banjar;, Banjar Mas- 

 Eiiig, Cajü-tangi, Tatas and Cartapura» A pa- 

 ciücation took place, and the English after- 

 "wards reduced their establishment to ten Eng- 

 lishmea and 40 Bugis-men. Hostilities agaia 

 ensued in the year 1706^ and the English were 

 expelled, those who escaped proceeding to Ba- 

 tavia, ïn this year 1706, the Dutch began to 

 trade to Banjar again^ and continued it with 

 some interrnptions, bnt without forming a re- 

 gülar settleraent till 1747, af ter which they 

 formed their establishment at Tatas, which con- 

 tinued till it was abandoned by Daendels in 

 1807-8, about the time of the decline of the 

 pepper trade. 



It appears, that so early as the year 1690, 

 the Portuguese had settled Missionaries at Ban- 

 jar, and according to Valentyn, they enumerat- 

 ed bctween three and four thousand converts to 

 the Catholic faith, soon after the comniencement 

 of last Century. Of the present state of these 

 Christians I iim ignorant. 



