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have lan^ ceased to form matter of surprise. A 

 gctveiiiment, which waged an iiiiquif loys warfare 

 against the inhabitants of ihe iMolticcas **for sti* 

 iing thdr doves to other at'ffngera^ ' need not 

 blu:?h at any inferior shade of guilt. 

 A. i>. nauu^. In 1761 several irregularities and 



deliberate murders having been com- 

 mitted in Nanning, the Panghooluo was repeated* 

 A, 0- mi, Hcg, ly summoned to 3p|)e'ir at Malac- 



ca in order to answer for bis con- 

 duct, hut be pertinacionsly refused to make his 

 ajjpearance. It may here be proper to observe 

 that three yefirs previously to this period, viz: in 

 1758, the Hajah of Johore assigued the nominal 

 authority which he possessed over the states of 

 Humbow, Sungei Ujoug-, iohol, and Nannin^, 

 to the Dutch, on condition or having the name of 

 the Grand Seignor erased from the public pray* 

 era recited in the mosques and his own inserted 

 iu lieu thereof. The Uulch do not appear haw- 

 ever to have based any ulterior measures on this 

 newly acquired auJhority further than conclud- 

 ing a Treaty with an individual of the name of 

 Dayong Cabodia, who had been appointed Rajah 

 over tlie interior by the SuUhaun of Johore, al- 

 though his usual residence was at Rhio- In the 

 treaty coneludpd by the Dutch with Rumbow in 

 18 a reference is made to this one. The of- 

 fice aiTter his death appears to have fallen into 

 desuetude, although a close approximation to it is 

 10 be found in thai of the lyang Pertuan Besar^ 

 which falls to be noticed heieafter in its proper 

 place. 



