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The Bandar, however, whilst he denied most emphatically that 

 he had the slightest intention of attacking the Klana, agreed to 

 write a letter to the Government promising that he would take no 

 offensive step until he had received further letters from Singapore. 

 Before this letter was furnished, however, the Klana marched 

 a party of men down to a village of the Bandar's, and took it. INTo 

 lives were lost, and no property destroyed on this occasion. The 

 Bandar then hastened to give the required letter to the Govern- 

 ment Officer who took it at once to Singapore, the Klana's people 

 returning at the same time from the Bandar's village. 



Before an answer could be sent the Klana wrote to Malacca 

 that the Bandar in breach of faith was making preparation for an 

 attack upon him, erecting stockades, getting gunpowder, &c, from 

 Malacca, and that he heard Mahmttd was with him. Accordingly 

 a letter was sent by the same Officer to the Bandar, calling upon 

 him to give up Mahmttd, to sign the Agreement, and charging him 

 with trifling with the Government, and also with breaking faith. 



To this the Bandar had no satisfactory reply to give, he still 

 denied all knowledge of Raja Mahmttd, but still refused to do any- 

 thing to bring about an understanding between himself and the 

 Klana, and gave out generally that he could not understand by 

 what right the British Government interfered in the affairs of his 

 country, that for his part he was very well contented with things 

 as they were, and he did not intend to alter them. 



The Klana now lost patience, and looking on the Bandar in 

 the light of a rebellious subject and thinking he had sufficient force 

 to bring him to reason, he determined to do so. 



The result proved how greatly he had miscalculated his 

 strength. 



The Klana attacked and took Easa, the Bandar's principal vil- 

 lage, but advancing on Kapayang the Bandar's own place he was 

 met by a force of the Bandar's people under Eaja Mahmttd, and his 

 mere name caused such a panic, that the Klana and his five hun- 

 dred followers fled like one man, leaving a small party of Straits 



