22.0 | RAJA HAJI. 
sides. Before long the Malacca force was defeated and retreated 
to the town. After this there was no fighting for some days, and 
then the Yang-di-per-Tuan of Selangor sent fifty Selangor men to 
Telok Katapang to fetch a large boat, which had been presented to 
him by the Yang-di-per-Tuan Besar, and to bring her to Batang 
Tiga. She was, however, attacked by the Dutch and was struck by 
a cannon-ball and sunk; but she was not burnt. The Selangor 
men returned to Batang Tiga again.” 
“When Raja Haji was established at Tanjong Palas, near Telok 
Katapang, he ordered an attack to be made on the east side of 
Malacca by some hundreds of Malays and Bugis. Again the Malacca 
men sallied forth, with hundreds of Dutch soldiers, and when the 
two forces met there was a great fight.* The Punggawa led his 
men to the attack of a gun upon a carriage, and after a hand-to-hand 
fight it was captured by the Bugis and Riau men, and the Malacca 
people retreated to the town.+ Then hostilities ceased for a month 
or half a month, and then there was another engagement, then 
another period of quiet and then another fight. As time went on 
the Malacca people were defeated more and more, until the whole 
of the territory round the town had been reduced by Raja Haji, 
and nothing remained to the Dutch but the town of Malacca itself 
with its fortress.” 
“Tt is related that the war had lasted for about a year without any 
decisive defeat on either side and the Governor of Malacca was 
becoming very anxious, becauseassistance was so long in coming from 
Batavia. He brought into the fort, with their wives and families, all 
the Europeans who lived outside the walls, and a very strict watch 
was maintained by patrol (sambang) day and night. ‘he Governor 
also sent messengers to the neighbouring Malay States to say that 
if the Company were victorious a reward would be given to those 
Rajas from whom support was received.” : 
“When the Governor’s letter to this effect reached Siak, the Yam 
Tuan, Mohamed Ali, took counsel with his nephew, Saiyid Ali bin 
Osman, and then started for Malacca, tempted by the riches of 
this world, to assist the Governor. (Nevertheless, it is stated in 
the chronicle of Selangor that when the Dutch attacked and took 
Telok Katapang, Yam Tuan Mohamed Ali and Saiyid Ali were not 
present).”’ 
* Described in language already used; translation omitted to avoid 
monotony. 
+ The Dutch account does not admit the capture of the gun. It was 
“unmounted and taken back.”—See p. 27. 
