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for at first when the fight became general it was observed from 
Mount St. John that fifteen or sixteen men, who must have been 
dead or badly wounded, were carried away from their earthworks 
further towards Semabok; the loss on our side consisted of one 
killed, Corporal Evans Baving, and eleven wounded, of whom one 
was a European soldier. 
Marcu 31.—An alarm was sounded in the town lines on its 
being signalled from Boekit Tjina that the enemy were on the 
march to Boenga Raja, but soon afterwards it was reported that 
having been welcomed by some cannon shots they had turned 
back again. 
Aprit 1.—The enemy resumed their design of yesterday, and 
marched from all sides to Boenga Raja, probably to see whether 
they could break through these; but after some shots had been 
fired at them from the heavy gun they retired in the same way. 
Aprit 8.—Up to the 8th nothing noteworthy occurred, except a 
few small encounters between our men and the enemy’s partisans. 
Aprit 11.—In the evening at about 10 o’clock the enemy attacked 
at the same time the outer batteries of Boenga Raja and Bandail- 
hera and the one under Boekit Tjina, but after firme had gone on 
for an hour with some intervals they were obliged to draw back 
without having caused us any damage or loss. 
Aprit 13.—Towards the evening the Selangoerese and their 
hangers-on attacked the Achinese of the. Company’s service who 
were encamped on the road to Gerestein, but after a fight of a good 
half hour they were obliged to retreat to the jungle; likewise a troop 
of them who let themselves be seen on the field behind the Tran- 
quéra gardens, after a few rounds of grape-shot from the town, 
were forced to follow their comrades’ example. 
Aprit 15.—At break of day there marched out to the enemy’s 
batteries on the side of the road to Semabok, under general command 
of Heer Johan Andrea Hensel, Captain of Militia, Lieut. and Hnsiens 
Anthonij Stecher, Johan Godfried Maurer and Johan Godfried 
Lintner, with a corps of thirty European and two hundred and 
twenty-seven Malay soldiers, a company of negro volunteers under 
their Captain-lieutenant Adrian Koek, the ordinary and extra 
vuurwerkers Diehl and Groenewout, one bombardier, three kanon- 
mers, forty-four native and Chinese musketeers, and the necessary 
coolies, taking with them a 24-pounder cannon, two six-pounders 
and two three-pounders together with a 4-inch howitzer and all 
