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The follow mg year, the people of a. p iri\. itrg. 

 Nanniiig infoiined the Covernmenl. 

 that the mn of the king «f Menangkahow was at 

 Sri Menaatie with the view of giving battle to the 

 Buggiesses. and that there wa- a rumour that he 

 intended making incursion^ into Nat.ning. where- 

 fore they rcquefted arms and animumtionin order 

 lo defend themselves. The Dutch, wlio natural- 

 ly coticludfd U.at these arms w^uld be employed 

 in a very different way. rq)lied, that ; " as they 

 wereUoinpanv's subject.," they might dismiss all 

 anpiel.en^ions, but warned them to give Govern- 

 mem the earliest intimation of any approach to a 

 hostile attitude on the part of the Pnnce. 

 . U was somewhere about this pe. a. d. itsi. ik;. 

 riod, although I cannui fix the.pre- 

 cise vr-ar. that the title of Sri Uajah Merah. to 

 which I have previoasiy aUude.l. wa. o.n erred 

 on the PanKhooloo of iNon.nn^i by ''^jf 

 J.thore. auil ti.e circumstance, whence it «a» de 

 rived, i* thus traditionally recorded 



invei-led awav a coticubme ol the Kajah ol 

 Joh<;e. fled with her to Nanniog. '"-"^t 

 prince addressed a letter to Inch. Aroom, the 

 ihen Captain Malay* of Malacca, (a man possess- 

 ed of considerable geneial, as weil as local, n.Hu- 

 ence, requiring that f .e oHender should be pnt to 

 death! Inchi Aroom in co-^equence toak a man, 

 ofthenameofJoowana Lengang, nito h.s coun- 

 cils, who agreed to assassinate Gampada Lanstia, 



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