FO? RAJA HAJI. 
cause) before they could reach the enemy, but those who could get 
up to the Dutch attacked them hand to hand, and there was 
tremendous shouting and noise and many were killed and wounded 
on both sides. During this engagement the Dutch troops completely 
surrounded the large stockade, standing in rows, one row behind 
another. Then Raja Haji ordered a general attack to be made. 
Arong Lenga, who had to ride a pony because he was suffering from 
a kind of boil on the breast (paipa), charged the Dutch line with 
his men and was killed, he and his pony; of the Dutch, too, many 
were killed. A number of Dutch officers and soldiers then entered 
the stockade, and were encountered by Daing Selikang, with his 
Panglimas, Talisang and Haji Ahamad, who threw themselves upon 
the advancing lnes of the Dutch troops and perished, all three 
of them, martyrs in God’s cause, hike brave men. Many others, 
too, there were, men of high standing, who died similarly and 
scorned to turn their backs. The Dutch lost about seventy men 
lnlled in this action, including three officers.” 
“Then Raja Haji arose and drew his dagger (badek), holding 
in his other hand the religious book which he had been reading. 
He was instantly seized by a number of his own followers who 
were trying to hold him back, and while this was going on he was 
hit by a musket ball fired from the Dutch ranks, and he fell and 
almost immediately expired.”’ 
“When the Dutch saw that Raja Haji had been killed they 
stopped firimg and remained drawn up in ranks; all the followers 
of the Yang-di-per-Tuan Muda, male and female, quitted the 
stockade and made their escape unmolested by the troops. Among 
these were the two sons of Raja Haji, Raja Jafar and Raja Idris, 
and his nephew, Raja Suleiman; the latter was wounded and was 
carried off by his people. Raja Jafar was carried by a man named 
Inche Layar, a descendant of the family of Magat Inu. In this 
way, all the surviving followers of Raja Haji got clear away from 
Telok Katapang and made good their escape to Muar, without 
further molestation from the Dutch. Thus was Telok Katapang 
taken by the Dutch.” 
“TItis related that after this the Governor of Malacca directed 
the Capitan Malayu and the elders of the city to go out and bring 
in the body of the late Raja Haji. A procession of men and 
women, with lamentations and weeping, conveyed the body within 
the walls of the fort in the manner customary at royal funerals, 
