188 RATA HAG 
Fortunately for historians, the Dutch administration in Malacca 
observed the excellent practice. of keeping an official record of 
passing events, probably for the information of the Government 
in Batavia, and this diary is still preserved in the archives of the 
Resident Councillor at Malacca. Some thirty years ago Mr. 
Netscher, the Dutch Resident of Riouw, obtamed the permission 
of the Governor of the Straits Settlements (Colonel Cavenagh, 
now Sir Orfeur Cavenagh, k.c.s.1.,) to examine and make extracts 
from them, and he published under the title of “'Two Sieges of 
Malacca” a little pamphlet containing the text of the Dutch 
records relating to the attack on Malacca by Daing Kamoja in 
1756 and the invasion of Raja Haji in 1784. In each case the 
invaders were Bugis from Riouw aided by their friends and 
relations from Selangor, where a Bugis colony had been success- 
fully established. Portions of the history of the attack of 1756 
have already been published in this Journal (No. 12, December, 
1883, p. 261), and [now give the Dutch official account of the war 
of 1784, which has been kindly translated for me, from Netscher’s 
“ Twee Belegeringen,” by my sister Mrs. Isemonger :-— 
THE SIEGE OF 1784. 
Extracts from the Malacca Journal of the year 1784. 
Jan. 7.—There returned from Linggi the ship Meerenberg and 
the private bark Anthonetta iavaaatvat, which had left for that 
place on the 2nd instant. The Captain of the first-named boat, 
Jan Montanje, produced a copy of the journal which he had kept 
during the expedition, wherein amongst other things it was stated 
that while lying at the mouth of the river Linge: on the 5th 
instant he saw about fifty of the enemy’s vessels come out of the 
river, and sail along the coast towards the north, or Strait of 
Kalang, but that on “account of the calm, and the distance of the 
vessels, he was unable to pursue them; and taking into consider- 
ation the superior force of the enemy, and the fact that as they 
had left Linggi he could not find out the reason of their visit, he 
returned here. 
Jan. 14.—Arrived in the afternoon at about 4 o’clock, six baloos, 
at Tandjong Kling, and in the evening the unpleasant news was 
received, through the people of the Chinaman San Somko, that the 
Selangoer vessels had landed their crews, in all about one hundred 
men, inthe bay of Batang Tiga, that they had not only pursued and 
fired at him and his slaves, but they had taken one slave prisoner, 
and that he and the rest had saved themselves by flight. 
