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town and fortress, the Fiscal, E. Francois Thierens, Sabandar 
Hoijnck van Papendrecht, and Secretary Baumgarten went to Telok 
Katapan in order to congratulate the Hon’ble Heer Jacob Pieter 
van Braam, Admiral of the East India Squadron, on his victory 
of yesterday, and at sunrise a salute of 21 guns was fired from 
the castle walls in honour of the joyful event. 
A detachment of one European officer and two non-commissioned 
officers, a drummer, and twenty-six soldiers, with two Malay upper 
and two under officers and forty-nine soldiers, were sent out to 
protect the coohes who were employed to bring in spoil, and to 
destroy the enemy’s fortifications to the east of this fortress and on 
the road to Telok Katapan. Another detachment, under command 
of Lieut. Nicholaas Christian Vetter, marched from Boenga Raja 
to Pringgi, to turn the enemy out from there, but they found the 
works already abandoned; so, after knocking them down and setting 
fire to them, they returned. 
Some of the Malacca soldiers who followed the enemy to Telok 
Katapan yesterday, reported on their return, to-day, that they had 
found on the battlefield a wounded Bugis, and on asking him where 
Radja Hadji had gone, he told them that not only had he heard 
that Radja Hadji was killed, but also, immediately after the attack 
on the biggest stockade, he had seen a body carried away by two 
men ina kind of hang mat, and supposed it to be that of Radja 
Hadji, because it was followed by some well-dressed women. 
At night about 11 o’clock the Selangoerese attacked our forti- 
fications on the Tranqué¢ra road and those near Gerestein, but they 
were speedily forced by our guns to retire. 
JuNE 20.—A force was sent to Oedjong Pasir and to Telok 
Katapan, for the same purpose and in the same way as on the 19th. 
June 21.—This detachment, returning to-day, brought back 
with them a Bugis of the name of Akier, whom they had found in 
the jungle. This man, on being questioned, said that he had been 
in Radja Hadji’s stockade when it was stormed -by the Europeans, 
and that Radja Hadji was killed by a shot through the breast ; 
that his body was afterwards carried away in a hang mat ona 
pole by the Panghoeloe of Padang and a slave, and followed by 
some women; that he had joined the party and seen that they laid 
the body in a small thicket which he could show them, and 
afterwards had fled, surely for fear of being overtaken by the 
Europeans, who meanwhile had taken possession of"everything. 
