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The number of Chinese employed in working 

 the mines bad encreased in 1828 to about six 

 hundred raen, who were distributed into ten 

 Kung'SekSf QT companies. They appear to have 

 presumed on iheir nnmerical strength, as they 

 greatly displeased both the Kalana and the Ra- 

 jah di Rajah by their arrogant and dissolute con- 

 duct. The working of the mines, however, was 

 still continued up to 1830 when a eerious disturb- 

 auce arose in consequence of some improper 

 conduct, real or alleged, of the Chinese towards 

 a woman of Terachi, whereon the Malays rose 

 and slew one of their number. 



The Chinese, profiting by tlie absence of the 

 Kalana, who happened to be then at Sri Menanti 

 on the business of the lang de Pertuan, advanc- 

 ed cniK^rue upon Teraehi, but were speedily driv- 

 en back by the Malays, who pursued them a$ 

 far as Soongei Oojong, slaughtering great num- 

 bers of them, and dispersing the rest. The Chi- 

 nese, in consequence, abandoned the mines, and 

 their property was confiscated by the irritated 

 chiefs » 



Upon the representation of the Dattoo Moo- 

 dah that this wholesale confiscation would ren- 

 der him incapable of fulfilling his engagements 

 with the merchants of Malacca, who had invest- 

 ed large sums in the speculation, the Kalana agre- 

 ed to restore all the tin that was collected in the 

 mines, f/TmaA Karungan,) and the tin ore, ( Timak 

 Biji) \ such, however, as was either smelted, or 

 found scattered about the Chinese houses, remain- 

 ed confiscated. Of this there were found about 

 eighteen piculs, five-ninths of which the Kalana 



