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purpose of assisting them. Kau Hsing advanced to Modjopait, but heard that 

 it was not known whether the soldiers of Kalang were far or near, so lic 

 went back to the river Pa-tsieh; at last he got information from Ike Mese 

 that the enemy would arrive that night, and was ordered to go again to 

 Modjopait. 



On the 7th day the soldiers of Kalang arrived from three sicles to 

 attack Tuhan Pidjaja , and on the 8th day, early in the moming, Ike Mese 

 led part of the troops to engage the enemy in the x south-west, but he did 

 not meet them; Kau Hsing fought with the enemy on the south-east and 

 killed several hundreds of them , whilst the remainder fled to the mountains. 

 Towards the middle of the day the enemy arrived also from the south-west, 

 Kau Hsing met them again and towards evening they were defeated. 



On the 1 5 th the army was divicled into three bodies , in order to at- 

 tack Kalang; it was agreed that on the 19th they should meet at Taha ( 1 ) 

 (Daha) and commence the battle on hearing the sound of the p'au ( 2 ). Apart 

 of the troops ascended the river, Ike Mese proceeded by the eastern road 

 and Kau Hsing took the western , whilst Tuhan Pidjaya with his army brought 

 up the rear. On the 19th they arrived at Taha, where the prince of Ka- 

 lang defended himself with more than a hundred thousand soldiers. The 

 battle lasted from 6 A. M. till 2 P. M. and three times the attack was re- 

 newed, when the enemy was defeated and fled, several thousand thronged 

 into the river and perished there, whilst more than 5000 were slain. The 

 king retired into the inner city, which was immediately surrounded by our 

 army and the king summoned to surrender; in the evening the king, whose 

 name was Hadji Katang ( 3 ), came out of the fortress and offered his sub- 

 mission , on tliis the orders of the emperor were delivered to him and he was 

 told to go back. 



On the 2nd day of the 4th month Tuhan Pidjaya was" sent back to 

 his dominions in order to make preparations for sending tribute , two officers 



O p§v, TMs character has been used by the Chinese first to denote catapuïts and aJfterwards 



guns. I am not prepared to take it in the second seiise, as I am not aware that the Mongols or 

 Chinese had fireanns at the time. Whatever it may have been, il musl have given a sound suffi- 

 ciently strong to be audible to three bodies of troops. It probably was sonie kind ot' rocket. 



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