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came over from Siak during these commotionj?, 

 ostensibly to assist the Datch, by whom he was 

 kindly received and allotted a residence in Tran- 

 quel rah, it not being deemed prudent to admit 

 him wiihiii the walls of the fort. 



Iti the subst^quent year the Dutch resolved to 

 A. D. nm Heg. attempt the conquest of Rhio. An 

 expedition. fiUed out for this pur- 

 pose, which was conducted by Mr. Christian 

 Gotlieb Baiimgarten as Commissioner, was crown- 

 ed witJi complete success. Sulthaim Mahomed 

 Shah of Linggin, from whom opposition was ap- 

 prehended, not only remained neutral during the 

 short struggle, but consented to the Dutch re- 

 maining in possession. MourDlnmi Jangool was 

 A. D. 17S5 Hi-g> at the same time elected iyang de 

 I! or, Pertuan, or Hajah, Moodah. 



The English this year obtained a settlement on 

 Pulo Pinaug, although thf»y did not occupy it till 

 12th August 1786. at that time a barren and un- 

 inhabited island belonging to the kingdom of Ke- 

 dah or Quedah, which lies at the northwestern 

 entrance of the Straits of Malacca, and rectived 

 from the first settlers, Messrs, Scott and Light, 

 the name of Prince of Wales's island. To this im- 

 portant settlement J intend reverting in a subse- 

 quent chapter. Ten years subsequently, the 

 A, p. iTos Heg, same power wrested Malacca and 

 its depeodencies from the Dutch, 

 and, on receiving Khio as one of these in 179S, 

 beir.^ ignorant of its value, restored it to the Ma- 



0. iTsa Heg. lays. 

 '^"* i^Ioorohum JangooK the Iyang 



de Pertuan Moodah of Uhio. dying in 1807, was 



