D294 RAJA HAJI. 
A word may be added as to the removal of the body of Raja 
Haji from Malacca to Riau, as to which the statement made (on 
p- 212 supra)is perhaps not quite correct. If, as the Malay chronicler 
says (supra p. 228), the remains of Raja Haji were transferred to 
Riau by his son, the bones which were removed in recent years 
must have been those of other persons. Interments, according to 
Malay usage, had perhaps occasionally been practised near the 
place, which had been rendered specially holy by the burial of one 
whom the people regarded as a Muhammadan hero. Hxact par- 
ticulars are wanting. 
It would have been interesting, if possible, to supplement the 
records, both Dutch and Malay, of the war of 1784, by local traditions 
collected in Malacca. Stories of the Bugis invasion are, no doubt, 
preserved here and there by the Malay peasantry; and the lines of 
the stockades at Tanjong Palas and Teluk Katapang can, perhaps, 
be pointed out. But I have had no leisure for any such investiga- 
tion; and additional facts, if any be forthcoming, must be left to 
be supplied by other hands. 
I have only to add that if this imperfect attempt to record an 
important event in the history of Dutch domination in the Pen- 
insula should be read by any of my learned and valued colleagues, 
the members of the Koninklyjk Instituut voor de Taal-Land en 
Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, I trust that it may serve to 
assure them that that history is studied by Englishmen of to-day 
in a very different spirit from that which is evinced in Begbie’s 
narrative. 
The materials for a good account of Dutch rule in Malacca, the 
most ancient and famous city in these seas—now how sadly 
eclipsed by younger rivals—are gradually bemg supphed by the 
publication of selections from the Batavia records,* and it may be 
hoped that before long a competent historian may be found to 
undertake it. 
W. E. MAXWELL. 
Tae ResipENcy, SELANGOR, 
January, 1891. 
* Dagh-Register gehouden iat Casteel Batavia, van J. A. Van der Chijs, 
Nijhoff, The Hague. 
