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At this period Pieter Geraldas de A.r», 1182. H««* 

 Bi igu was the Goveraor of M alacca, 

 being assisted by five other individuals as Mem- 

 bers^ of Council : these were. 1st; the President of 

 the Court 0 f Justice ; 2d ; the Commanding Officer 

 of the Troop? ; 3d; the Master At- A.D.ms. Heg. 

 tendant; 4th; the Fiscal; and 5th ; i^^^* 

 the Winkellier, or Superintendant of the Compa- 

 ny's trade. Few readers need to be reminded 

 that a severe contest vva^i being maintained at this 

 epoch by the English against the united strength 

 of the French and Dutch nations. Gerrid Pangal 

 was also Re*»ident of the island of Rhio, another 

 Dutch settlement in the vicinity of Singapore, 

 Rajah fladgi, was the Rajah Mood ah, or lyang 

 de Pextuan Moodah, of the same place, and Sul- 

 thaun Mahomed Shah, Sulthaun of the small is- 

 land of Unggin. An English merchantman was 

 attacked by a French man of war some where 

 in the Indian Arctiipelago, but, managing to make 

 her eiicape, put into Khio for protection. It 

 must be remembered that, although the Dutch 

 possessed a colony here, it Has as yet but in its 

 infancy, and their authority merely nominal. The 

 Engliijhman consequently relied upon the neu- 

 trality of the Hajah Moodali. 



Pangai, anxious as he was to obtain the mer- 

 chantman as a prize, was therefore unable to 

 seize her without the permission of Rajah Hadgi, 

 which he accordingly sought and obtained upoa 

 condition tiiat he should receive a fair proportion 

 of the booty, Pangal lost no time in communicat- 

 ing with the Governor of Malacca, who forth- 



