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attempt, with a small force supplied him bj the 

 Butcb, and was ag:ain baMed. After the des- 

 truclion of Sacadina in 1786, however, tbey as- 

 «isted him a third time, with an armanisnt con- 

 sisting of one vessel of 70 gtuis, another of 50 

 guns, a third of 30 gons, together with a large 

 Iransportj, and some smaller vessels^ when Mam- 

 pawa sorrendered without uring a gun, and the 

 eldêst son of the Sultan was appointed Panam- 

 bahan. The Rajah or oid Panambaha» escaped 

 up the river, where he remained tiil be died. 

 The Dutch established a fjictory at Mampawa 

 of 32 Europeans, and a small sloop in the river, 

 and divided the duiies with the Panambaban, 

 but abandoned it at the same time as Pontiana 

 in 1790, after tbis, the new Panambaban per- 

 juitted the son of tiie deposed Rajah to return 

 to Mampawa, and reside in a private capacity 

 with a small establishnient, and the cmptj title 

 of Rajah. 



Sambas is situated about 30 miles up the river 

 of tbat nanfie, and the territory runs a considera- 

 ble \^ay into the interior, and is rich in gold- 

 dust. About the jear 1600^ and also about the 

 year 1700, tbis appears to have been a consider- 

 able state, and to have extended its swaj far in- 

 to the iuterior., Tbis is the first of the Eastern 



