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place and arrived there just as the troops had re-embarked to 
return to their ships. A fight then took place between the penjajaps 
and the boats and there was a great deal of firing with muskets 
and blunderbusses, during which three of the boats were sunk and 
a number of men were killed, but the rest of them got away. Then 
the ships and ketches sailed up and opened fire upon the penjajaps, 
to which the latter responded. The fight ended without a victory 
for either side, and at nightfall the ships stood out to sea again 
and the Malays and Bugis landed at Pulau Peningat to search for 
the bodies of the Siantan men. Those that were found were buried 
hurriedly, two or three together in one grave, and when this was 
done the penjajaps left again and fighting recommenced next day.” 
“ After the war had gone on for nine months (some people say 
eleven months, God knoweth the truth) there was a parley between 
_ the combatants—that is to say, between the Yang-di-per-Tuan Muda, 
Raja Haji, on one side and Pieter Jacob van Braam (or, as some 
say, Captain Abo) on the other, and there was a truce in order to 
allow of negotiations. The Dutch wanted to bring one large ship 
of war into the Riau river, but Raja Haji objected to this, saying 
that if the object was a conference with a view to an understanding 
no ship must be brought in, to which the Dutch replied that they 
had no sinister intention. Raja Haji still objected, and the Dutch 
said that they could not be expected to come to Riau without 
soldiers with them during a time of war. Their war-ship persisted 
in trying to get in, so fighting recommenced, fire being opened on 
her from the stockade at Telok Kreting. Then there was a 
tremendous cannonade, the fire from the ship drowning every other 
noise. The stockade was very near falling, owing to gunpowder 
running short, but the Yang-di-per-Tuan Muda sent them a supply 
ina boat. The man who took it across was Shahbandar Bopeng 
and the lad who paddled him was Inche Kalik, the head of all the 
youths of good family at that time. The boat was fired on by the 
ship with ball and canister and was sunk, but her men got on 
shore with one barrel of powder and took it up to the stockade at 
Telok Kreting, which was able thus to fire four or five rounds.” 
.“ Then, by the decree of God most high, the ship took fire and, 
by the explosion ‘of the gunpowder on board, she was blown into 
the air and fragments were sent flying over land and sea and all her 
crew perished. According to one account, they numbered eight 
hundred and, according to another account, five hundred, and there 
was a Kommissaris among them. Ihave learned from old Dutch 
