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the second mate, Jan Hendrik Meijer, the armed boat of the 
ship Meerenberg, and three kakaps mounted with rantakas. ‘These 
arrived in the bay in front of the enemy’s stockade at about 3 
o’clock and began to bombard it. 
The fight continued between the stockade and the boats for an 
hour, when the before-mentioned force also approached the enemy, 
and attacked by land, and the general combat was fierce by land 
and sea; and three of the guns which had been brought burst and 
caused a fire, which, however, was soon extinguished. 
The enemy attempted once to make a sally on our right wing, 
but a few volleys from our muskets obliged them to retire into 
their intrenchments, from which they offered a desperate resistance, 
and thus saved themselves from being overmastered by our force. 
The latter from weariness, and in order not to be overtaken by 
darkness in the jungle, were obliged to cease fighting at 4 o'clock 
and to retreat. They returned at about 8 o’clock to the outer 
battery of the Lazarusveld: the armed boats above mentioned also 
returned. On our side eight men were wounded, of whom one died 
this evening. 
Jan. 22.—The merchant vessel Shaw Beyramgore, by Thomas 
Maughan, arrived from China after a voyage of fifteen days. She 
brought the unpleasant news that the Company’s fleet, after 
the loss of a ship blown up, had raised the blockade of Riouw, and 
immediately sailed away, and moreover were already somewhere 
about the Formoza Rock, where the aforesaid English ship had 
spoken them in passing. 
Jan. 23.—At daybreak sails were noticed towards the south, 
which soon proved to be a portion of the Company’s fleet which 
had blockaded Riouw. On account of contrary winds they were 
obliged at nightfall to anchor outside the harbour. 
Meanwhile, the Company’s ship Meerenberg sailed towards the 
south to bring into the harbour a wangkang which had been in sight 
since yesterday morning. 
Jan. 24,.—Arrived in the roads the Company’s ships Dolphijn, 
Hof ter Linden, De Jonge Hugo, besides the goerab* De Snelheid, the 
galwet Concordia,and the pantjalangans Rustenberg and Philippine. 
grab by the English in the last century. See Yule’s Glossary, sub voce Grab. 
t Galwet, gallevat: a kind of galley, or war-boat with oars, of small 
draught of water, which continued to be employed on the west coast of 
India down to the latter half of last century. From this is derived the 
English term “jolly-boat.” See Yule’s Glossary, sub voce Gallevat. 
