38 THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE MURDER 



Sultan was maintained. The plotters played upon religious fan- 

 aticism, producing for their purpose a man who claimed to have 

 come from heaven, and instigated the Dyaks to rise. They rose on 

 April 28th,§ and attacked the mines at Pengaron which is on the 

 east of Banjermassin, about as remote from it as the Sungei 

 Banyu Irang is to the south. Though they were beaten off, they 

 succeeded in arresting the messenger sent to Banjermassin to report, 

 and killed him. 



Three days later § they attacked Motley's mines, killing Motley 

 at a place called Bangkal,f and Motley's wife and three children 

 at a place called Kalangan;f where also they murdered the rest of 

 the company's staff, their wives and children, all except a few in- 

 fants. They murdered also about the same date in the same region 

 a Dutch political officer and several missionaries. They all but 

 got possession of the country, so that the fighting extended to 

 Banjermassin itself, and it was not for two years that there was 

 quiet again. 



§ Singapore Free Press of 2nd. Jun*, 1859. 

 t Singapore Free Press of 30th. June, 1858. 



Jour Straits Branch 



