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saw him making all sorts of manceuvres to escape, and the owner 
was a suspected smuggler, he forced him to come to the roads, and 
had taken Scott himself on board of the Hof ter Linden.* 
Marcu 22.—The armed ship Hoop and the cutter Patriot sailed in 
the morning to Telok Katapan to fight the enemy. 
Marcu 23.—The ships Hoop and Patriot, which were sent 
yesterday to Telok Katapan, came back to-day ; the result of the 
expedition and what they did may be seen from the extract of 
the journal kept by Naval Lieutenant Hartog. 
Marcu 28.—Up to this date nothing noteworthy happened 
except that almost every night we were disturbed by the enemy, 
and that a few volunteers outside now and then had a skirmish 
with some of them. 
Marcu 29.—At daybreak there marched out of the fort under 
command of Lieutenant Anthonij Stecher, Hnsigns Duvergé and 
Lintner and ex-Ensigen of the Burghers Kiliaan, a detachment 
of fifty-seven Huropean and two hundred and twenty Malay soldiers, 
besides the ordinary and extra vuurwerkers Diehl and Groenewout, 
one bombardier, a konstabel, three kanonniers and thirty native and 
Chinese musketeers with two 6lb., and two 3 lb. guns, a howitzer 
and a small gun with their appurtenances. Having arrived in the 
Bandailhera they were divided into three columns or divisions, of 
which one under Lieutenant Stecher was posted at Boekit Tampoc- 
rong, the second under sub-Lieutenant Lintner marched towards 
Semabok, and the third under command of Ensigns Duvergé and 
Icilaan to the zandhoek ; both the first engaged in fight with the 
enemy, while the third coming from the zandhoek right through the 
jungle fell on the enemy’s battery on the rear, when the fight became 
general and desperate, so that the enemy were forced by Duverge’s 
corps twice to retire from one of their batteries, but a swamp, which 
lay between, prevented them from advancing to take the battery 
which was much shattered. The enemy profited bythis to make some 
hasty repairs, took possession again, and defended it as obstinately 
as before, and this lasted until midday, when, on account 
of the fierce heat and fatigue, the troops were obliged to 
retire. The defences of the enemy were greatly damaged, some 
shells and grenades having exploded inside them, but their loss of 
men cannot be exactly estimated, but it must have been very great, 
* See mention of Scott in Capt. Lennon’s diary (1795), Journ. Str. Br. 
R. A. 8., No.7, p. 53. 
