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to the ioterior, had been discovered a short time 

 previously. On the 26th of November the Go* 

 vemor proposed to Council the meaf^ure of send - 

 mg ail expedition si gainst the traitorous and 

 merciless Menangkabowi;/' A force was accord- 

 ingly despatched under the command of L. Fur- 

 6ten, which htarted either in Decemher 1644, or 

 A. B. 164S. H«g. January 1645, bnt was surprized 

 and cut to pieces by the combined 

 forces of Nanning and Rumbow, on the 6th of 

 January whilst it was conjectured that the Ra- 

 jah of Johorehad rendered undej hand assistance^ 

 maugre the treaty which he had signed. The 

 Dutch, on the receipt of this disastrous intelli- 

 gence at the hands of one or two who had escaped 

 the slaughter, took the alarm, repaired their fort 

 and raised a militia. 



No attack, however, was made upon the settle- 

 ment, which appears to have remained undisturb- 

 ed by external aggressions for about seven years, 

 when it is recorded that the Nanning Chiefs put 

 A. 1652. H«s. to death the son-in-law of Rajah 

 loea. Merah, (the obnoxious Chieftain 



forced on the r by the Dutch Government) in a 

 summary manner for having attempted the life of 

 his father-in-law and wife. This act was in strict 

 accordance with the method of administering jus- 

 tice which bad ever prevailed among them prior 

 to Dutch interference, and in itself was highly 

 disinterested, as they thus punished an attempt 

 which, had it been crowned with success, would 

 have delivered them from the control of an indi- 

 vidual, whom they rightly esteemed to be acrea- 

 turei of the Dutch. The latter, notwithstanding. 



