RAJA HAJI. Oa 
«The Yang-di-per-Tuan of Selangor made a journey to Rembau 
for amusement and spent some time there. Thence he returned to 
Sungei Bahru witha large following of Rembau men. He then made 
arrangements for a serious attack upon Malacca.” 
“At last the reinforcements expected by the Governor from 
Batavia arrived, consisting of about thirty vessels, large and small, 
ships of war and armed ketches, with thousands of troops both 
white and black. As soon as they arrived, about nine large ships 
attacked Telok Katapang, and there was a severe engagement 
between the stockades and the ships, which ended at nightfall and 
was renewed next day for several days. Even in a time of danger 
like this Raja Haji amused himself every night with plays and 
dancers, and feasting and giving feasts to the Princes and Chiefs ; 
but, nevertheless, his piety was no pretence and he never discon- 
tinued repeating his prayers; his beads * never left his hands, and 
on Thursday nights he never failed to celebrate the festival of the 
birth of the Prophet Muhammad, on whom be the blessings of God 
and His peace, just as if his situation was that of a person free from 
anxiety.” 
“ At last when his hour had come and the fulfilment of the 
-measure and quantity of time allotted to him by God (who is ever 
to be praised and most high) in the furtherance of His designs, an 
attack was made by a body of some thousands of Dutch troops from 
the land side, who had got behind the small stockade. It should 
be explained that the large stockade,—namely, the one held by Raja 
Haji himself—was at Tanjong Palas, and that a smaller one further 
inland was commanded by Inche Ibrahim, the son of Bandahara 
Hassan. The Dutch made an assault upon Inche Ibrahim’s stockade, 
and after a hand-to-hand fight the stockade was carried and Inche 
Tbrahim made his escape to the large stockade in which Raja Haji 
resided. Then Raja Haji ordered his panglimas to sally out and 
attack the Dutch. He himself did not cease reading a religious 
book. The panglimas who went out engaged the Dutch troops, and 
there was a fight in which there were losses on both sides. The 
_ Dutch soldiers, of whom there were thousands, kept up an incessant 
fire of musketry, which crackled like the popping of rice being 
parched. Numbers of Bugis were shot down (martyred in God’s 
* Expressions in praise of God often follow the ordinary prayers and 
are counted with the beads. 
¢ Mulid-en-Nabi. 
