42^ SKETCH OF B^ORNXÖl. 



!iiiïï to poilit out the person wbo had brouglit it 

 \^hich Iie did immediatelv, and the slave being 

 seized conf^ssed that the siri had been sent by 

 one of the Sultan's concubines The Sultan 

 immediat( ly_, without farther explanation;, order- 

 ed the slave's head to be ciit ofF in the presence 

 of the Surgeonj and the woman was dispatched 

 privatel}'. The Dutch Resident and the rest o^ 

 the factory took the alarm and declared that 

 they would return to Java. The Sultan en- 

 deavoured io pacify them^ bui in vain^ and 

 ihey retired to Batu Lavang, a solitary rock> 

 on whicb a fort is built about five miles belovv 

 Pontiana, Here thej fortiüed tbemselves and 

 posted the armed cutter and uring upon all 

 proas, atiempted to bloek up the ri.ver. The 

 Sultan repeatedly attenipted to persuade the Re- 

 sident to return, but findingali remonstrances ia 

 vain^ he represented the matter to Batavia^, 

 whea the Resident was re-cailed and anotber 

 sent in his place, wbo retunied and took up bis 

 jesidence in Pontiana. 



During the residence of the Dutch at Pontiana 

 a good deal of illicit trade had been carried on 

 \>y the English, with the connivance of the 

 Dutch Resident, the ships anchoring only with- 

 out the raouth of the rL>'er, but after the facto- 



