CHAPTER V. 



BoqI Stfsd, Pitn^hooho of Narmingy kviei a tax on the tulfo* 

 ^ers. ApprehinBWnof fomeofhis Chtffs. Britiufi Bm- 

 dent j/oes to Simpan^ tc hold a conference with ilut Rnrn- 

 ims Chiefs —an alhance formed^arrival ofre-inf&rcemmts 

 from Madras — Part of th£ force movts up to Euofihit/ah 

 and Jlo Ching. — Dcol Syedsutdtt in oJ?Vr^ of accontmodation. 

 which are rejcctfd— -Colonel Hirh^rt Joins (h^ forc& in ad* 

 vame — Sapper:/ employed in cuitmijf throutjh the Raomhiyah 

 forest — Malay wi tnethod of felUitff trees dacrihfd^Acci' 

 dents occasioned btf the fatliftg trtes — J>Ttadfal death of a 

 convict by ane— £wemy /rp on the covering pnrly at Soon- 

 get Pattifs, — are driven from their porUioy^ and the works 

 ftred — contiy^^tioii of operafions-^StQekades at Mnlacta 

 Pinda destroi/ed-^Strong stockade ofAij^r Mangis cnrried, 

 and Lieutetiant flarding kUled. Stockadts at Loondoo 

 and Panghaliang Nanning destrotfed — Oaptura of t%ifO sons 

 of Ptiah MahigoQ, ontf oj the refractory tAw/f — TAh ma- 

 gazine at Ro&mhiyah greatly datiutged, — Ajfair betweem 

 the BifUn and thfi emmy — Snsigi^ Wright severely womd^ 

 ed^^Bepnht: of a partij from Prtggi to Dadns — Eraign 

 Thomson wounded ^Party halts at Wrtght*s stockade nmd 

 is re-infofced. — Opfiratiovs to t he front staepended, A con- 

 vict^ who attempts to deivrt, killed by the enemy,^siocAadt 

 at ^oongei Pat/ye destroy eri—S<jed Sabbm of Rumbow 

 joins in ord^r to co-operate 



THE retreat of the detachnrent having left the 

 whole coUDtry at the mercy of Dool Syed and 

 his adlierents, he speedily began to make incur* 

 fiioDfi on the territory of Malacca proper, as if ia 

 retatiatioa for the diunage which his people had 

 sustained. He therefore enforced a tax of twen- 

 ty reals upon each village, most of which, dread- 

 ing the consequences of a refusal, complied with 

 the demand. 



On the 24th September 1831, eight of the peo- 



