RAJA HAJI. Da | 
of war and armed ketches (kichi prang) to invade Riau and block- 
ade the port, hindering the entry of trading-boats. Raja Haji was 
furious at this, and he issued forth with a number of boats and 
there was a great fight. Lagum! lagam! terrific was the noise of 
the cannon, just: like a thunderbolt cleaving the mountains, and 
the smoke from the muskets obscured Kwala Riau like a mist, and 
loud were the shouts of the combatants, and the war-cries of the 
Bugis (kilong musong).” 
“This went on till the evening when both sides ceased fighting; 
and at nightfall the ships stood out to sea and half of the 
penjajaps re-entered the Riau river. Next day the fight was 
resumed with a tremendous cannonade from guns and lelas and 
rantakas on both sides and at night they again stopped. This went 
on daily for ever so many months without either side giving in and 
rice and all kinds of provisions were dear, for trading-boats could 
only enter with difficulty, bemeg intercepted by the ships of war, 
sometimes they got through and sometimes they did not.” 
“Raja Haji caused stockades to be erected at Tanjong Pinang and 
Telok Kreting and Pulau Peningat and manned each with a 
sufficient force of defenders. The stockade at Peningat was manned 
by Siantan men and the large penjajaps which carried cannon were 
ranged along the coast; of these there were about one hundred and 
fifty large and small down as far as Tanjong Uban, and some were 
stationed behind Riau to help to bring in the trading craft from 
Siam and Cochin China and other places bringing rice and other 
provisions.” 
“So the fighting went on day after day in the harbour of Riau. 
Raja Haji himself directed the operations in person and he used 
to paddle about in a long canoe (sampan bidor yang panjang).” 
“ He used to paddle about from one penjyajyap to another enquiring 
if the equipment was deficient in any way, and he used to do this in 
the thick of the fighting when bullets were flying from both direc- 
tions. The following story I have from an old man of Bugis 
_ extraction named Inche Sumpo’ who was a youth just old 
enough to wear a kris at the time of these events:—He remembered 
being with a number of other youths of good family, of about the 
same age as himself, in a boat in which they were conveying Raja 
Haji during a fight. They were paddling across from one penjajap 
to another when a shot was fired from a war-ship painted black and 
the ball struck the water, close to the boat and ricocheted to one 
side. The splash wetted the cloth which the Yang-di-per-Tuan 
