176 RAJA HAJI. 
ambassador, who accounted himself but too happy in having been 
able to effect his escape with his life.” 
“ Rajah Hadgi, having weighed anchor, now came off Katapang, 
a small village situated about five miles easterly of Malacca, and 
opposite the Water islands; here he disembarked and erected a 
stockade on the sea shore, in which he took up his head-quarters, 
having with him about 1,000 armed followers, and 300 women. 
Close to this village is a spot called Poongoor, where Mr. 
D’Wind had a house and grounds, but, the communication 
between it and Malacca beimg merely a narrow footpath leading 
through a dense jungle, Rajah Hadgi was convinced that regular 
troops would never think of passing through so dangerous a defile 
as long as there were more eligible points of attack. He therefore 
left the stockade open on this face,* throwing up a simple paggah, 
or stout bamboo fence, iu heu of it: as an additional source of 
security he advanced a party to Mr. D’Wind’s house.” 
“Meanwhile, the Rajah of Salangore, an independent State 
about forty miles to the westward of Malacca, who had married 
a daughter of Rajah Hadgi, sailed up the Linggy river, which 
disembogues itself about twenty-five miles from Malacca, and 
having captured some Malacca Klings (or natives of Coromandel) 
who were residing at Rumbow, returned down the river; he then 
sailed along the coast, reducing the whole country to the westward 
as far as Tanjong Kling, seven miles from Malacca.” 
“At the period of which I am treating, the now populous 
neighbourhood of Tranqueirah, which forms the western suburb of 
Malacca, consisted merely of a few houses spotted here and there 
ina thick jungle, which was peculiarly favourable for the opera- 
tion of a Malayan enemy; the Dutch, thus beleaguered both 
eastward and westward, were unable to prevent the approach of the 
Rajah of Salangore to the second Tranqueirah bridge which is only 
about one mile from the fort of Malacca, whilst Rajah Hadgi 
advanced as far as Oojong Passir, the whole of the country to the 
northward, as far as Pangkallang Rammah, being in the hands of 
the confederates.” 
* “Oneside of a Malayan stockade is always left open for the convenience 
of retreat, as the defenders never wait for the bayonet. As this side is 
generally resting on the jungle, and all the paths, except those they retreat 
by, are planted with ranjows, their loss is generally trifling, being screened 
by their works from the enemy’s fire in the first instance, and safe from 
pursuit in the second.” 
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