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May 7.—The ships continued a cannonade at intervals at Telok 
Katapan until sundown. 
May 8.—Under command of Lieuts. Duvergé and Kiliaan there 
were sent to Oedjong Pasir a sergeant, a corporal, a drummer and 
twelve European soldiers, together with two officers, ten subordinate 
officers, and seventy-eight native soldiers, a gunner, kanonnier and 
twelve musketeers, and the necessary coolies with one six-pounder 
gun and one three-pounder. Their object was to alarm the enemy 
and keep them occupied, so as to prevent them from attacking our 
men who were cutting the jungle round and making a new stockade 
nearer to the enemy than those already existing. 
This was done with so much success that the labourers finished 
their work without being disturbed, and the following night a party 
was stationed in the new stockade. Besides this the enemy’s works 
were much damaged and several breaches made in them, but on our 
side only two musketeers were wounded. In the night between 
eleven and twelve o’clock the enemy attacked the newly erected and 
still unfinished stockade at Oedjong Pasir, but met with so deter- 
mined a resistance from our men posted inside that they had to 
retire. 
May 9.—At3 a.m. they renewed the attack, but could not succeed 
in taking it, and for the second time were obliged to return to their 
own fortifications, where a party had been working the whole night 
to repair yesterday’s damage. 
May 11.—The man-of-war Hof ter Linden left for Telok 
Katapan in order, with the ships already there, to blockade the 
place and to prevent the escape of Radja Hadji’s ships as well 
as to keep out hostile reinforcements. 
May 14.—The old King of Siak, Radja Mohamad Ah, arrived 
with a pandjadjap and two kakaps manned with a crew of 78 men 
from the Straits of Moerong, and in the afternoon the Fiscal, EH. 
Francois Thierens, the Licent Meester, Mr. E. Hoijnck van 
Papendrecht, and the first sworn clerk of the Police, Baumgarten, 
went on board his ship to welcome him. They accompanied him 
to land and as far as the Government House, and after his 
Highness had remained with the Honourable the Governor for 
about half-an-hour he was conducted to the house of the widow 
Verbrugge, which had been prepared for him, outside the Tran- 
quéra gate. On landing, a salute of nine guns was fired from the 
castle walls; and from the great gate up to the steps of Government 
