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the head administrator of the place, Abraham Couperus, who took 
with him between two and three hundred Chinese volunteers 
armed with pikes and other hand weapons. 
This corps having approached the enemy’s stockade on this side 
of Semabok began at half-past six or break of day to fire on it with 
the cannons, and the fight became general and lasted till about 
half-past nine, when although a breach had been made in the 
enemy's stockade and several shells had been thrown in, our 
men were obliged to retire on account of the excessive heat and 
their fatigue, and arrived together about 11 o’clock in the castle 
inside the town. The loss of the enemy could not be estimated, 
but that on our side consisted of one man killed—namely, the third 
mate of the ship Dolphijn, William Marse, and thirty-one wounded, 
among whom were the bombardier and four European sailors; 
the 2nd Lieutenant Duvergé had three, and Captain Frederiks of 
the Navy one bullet through the hat. 
Frs. 26.—A force of one captain, one leutenant, one ensign, 
four sergeants, six corporals, and fifty Malay soldiers, including 
some volunteers, marched from the town lines to the garden of the 
late Soeratta Malek Faizullah, situated outside Tranquéra, where 
they came into action with the enemy, in the course of which three 
of the soldiers were wounded, of whom one died of his wounds in 
the hospital, but it is supposed that the loss of the enemy must 
have been much greater because they retired hastily behind their 
intrenchments, and it was seen that several men weregcarried 
inside. 
Fes. 27.—There were sent from the town lines to the outskirts 
of Tranquéra, together with a few volunteers, Adrian Koek, the 
Captain-leutenant of a regular company of volunteers, a Malay 
captain, two ensigns, four sergeants, six corporals and fifty privates, 
besides one gunner and four musketeers with a field-piece. This 
corps having advanced to the Lazarusveld attacked the enemy’s 
stockade erected there, and as it was at the same time shelled from 
the sea by the Concordia the enemy were soon forced to abandon it, 
taking with them, however, their ammunition, baggage, dead and 
wounded. 7 
In the meantime it was getting dark and our force was therefore 
obliged to return, on which the enemy soon took possession again 
of the deserted and much shattered stockade. The loss on our 
side was one Malay soldier wounded. 
Fez. 29.—At daybreak the ships which had gone to Telok 
