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enough for the DHE OS ay fFhis soldiers being laid up * 
already with sickness, and as for ine assistance of the Malays, 
he did not feel inclined to rely too much upon it. 
In the meantime he ordered his troops with the assistance 
of the Malays to construct a battery in the said suburb, and 
armed it with me 17 poaaders, with which he intended to 
silence the fire of the enemy on that side of the town. ; 
By this time Mr. Mareritzr had noticed, that whenever he 
had asked Radja Sasprance for the help of his men he indeed 
promised to send him people, but they never appeared ; and 
concluding that there was something amiss between the King 
of Djohor and his brother, he beeu me aware, “that he was 
knocking at a deaf an door, the more so that they had 
conceived a sentiment o f jealousy against each ane Finally, 
becoming convinced that he could never take the town with 
the small number of troops eae his command, he thought it 
advisable to raise the siege and re-embark his troops, especially 
when the Bandahara had told him plainly that the Malays 
intended to leave the whole business to us, under pretence 
that Ternate and Ambon had also been taken by us without 
the assistance of the natives. : 
I wish to take this opportunity of correcting an erroneous 
statement [ made in foot-note (5) p. 50 of No. 13 of this 
Journal for June, 1884, The arms on the old gateway 
there mentioned are not Portuguese, though I was so in- 
formed by a Portu pee iese Consul, but Duteh after all, the 
Batavian lion is clear. . 
Di Acta 
