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one barrel of gun-powder. As to the guns, he 

 coolly remarked that he found them abandoned 

 in tbe jungle, and that, perceiving the Compa- 

 ny's €^/mp on them, he had carried them to 

 Taboo, as caving to his being a servant of the 

 Company, he was bound to take care of its pro- 

 perty. He alijo furnished Mr. We^terhout with 

 the terms, on which he would surrender, the prin- 

 cipal of whjch were that he would meet the De- 

 puty Hesident, eitfier at Suongei Pattye, or 

 Ruombiyah, and there deliver up the guns. 



Datfou Ma'alu. who had accompanied the Bri- 

 ti^h party, seeing his ancient mnsier exposed for 

 so many hf urs to a fierce sun, despatched a co- 

 coauMt apiece to the Panghooloo, and Mr, Wes- 

 ttilH.ut; but the farmer positively refused to 

 toncli the one sent to him, unless it weieprevious* 

 ly ta>ted by Mr. W., as he suspected t)iat his 

 former *ervant \md poisoned the waier of it. I 

 have mentioned this anecdote, trivial in itself, 

 merely as an illustration of the predominant sus- 

 pioiou of treachery in a Malayan mind. Guard- 

 ed as the water of a cocoanut is by a (/ry;?c of in- 

 ordinate ihitkuess. most people would have look- 

 ed upon it as the v^y worst medium for convey- 

 ing poison. An armistice was agreed on until 

 a reply should be received to the terms of the 

 Partghooloo* 



On the 5ih Lieuts. Poole and Liardet arrived 

 at Bukit Seboosa, with the wheel, which gave a 

 distance of 2m. af. between thai post and BeU's 

 siockade,aud a further distance of Im. 7f. to Pur- 

 ling. Duriitg the night, the enemy, in defiance 

 of the armibtice, attacked Pur-Ling in hopes 



