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the Lazarus-house, whence they incessantly fired on our troops, 

 and we served them with the same sauce. 



Our troops were so enraged with the enemy, that it was almost 

 impossible for the Captain to repeat the tactics he had made use of 

 in the morning, viz., of a simultaneous attack on the flanks and the 

 centre, but the enemy did not long resist, soon taking to flight, and 

 this time in such a hurry, that they had to leave some of their 

 killed behind ; they had many killed and still more wounded. But 

 we too had six wounded in this engagement, three of them Europeans 

 and very seriously, three natives very slightly. 



Having thus a second time expelled them from the Lazarus-house, 

 the Captain returned to his former position, where he had that day 

 already twice posted his troops. 



The two culverins sent for having arrived and been placed on 

 the sea-shore under cover of some small jungle, so that the enemy 

 could not perceive them, the Captain took the necessary measures 

 and those best suited to receive the enemy in such a manner, 

 should they again return, that they would be satisfied for a long- 

 time to come. But it seemed that they were already satisfied, for 

 they did not re-appear ; and th* Captain after waiting in vain till 

 5 o'clock in the afternoon ordered the return march to the Fortress. 



Saturday, 27th November. 



Some days before we had received news that the enemy, more 

 than 500 strong, having forced their way through the jungle, were 

 again stationed at Eeringgi* near the Malay temple, and were 

 making a very strong bentang there, intending to wait there for 

 the approaching dry monsoon, and the arrival of their allies the 

 Menangkabaus from Rembau, and then with their combined forces 

 to invade Bunga Eaya and Banda Ilir, at the same time attacking 

 the town by a descent of the river on rafts, and so to put into 

 execution the infernal project they had long devised of burning 



* This place, about two miles from town on the Durian Tung-gal road, is said 

 to be so named from the man who first cleared the place (a Portuguese) and 

 who afterwards went to Tampin and made an orchard at Durian Feringgi, 

 now one of the frontier boiindary points, 



