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reserved for himself, and the remainder heassip(:ii- 

 ed to the lyang de Pertuan Besar of Rum how. 



This appears to have been the first profit de- 

 rived hy Rumbow from tlie Linjjgv mines, and 

 to hnve been founded probably upon the twu toU 

 lowintr grounds. backe<i by superiority of power : 

 VIZ, ftrgt, thiit the founders of the colony were 

 originally subjects of Rumbow, and, strondly, 

 tli^t the boats dencendin^ ihe river must ueeds 

 pass the Rumbow post of Simpan^- 



A few of the Chinese M ere induced to return 

 to Lin^gy in lS3U and the Kulana offered them 

 the wt^miig of the mines upon different terras to 

 those ou which they had been i>iiginaUy opened. 

 The new proposition was that, for every Chmef^e 

 house erected in the colony, the Kalana shoukl 

 receive » dtaialion of one hundred Spanis^h Dollars 

 at the time of its con^tniction, and a perpetual 

 tribute of one d<»Uar on each Buhar of tin. The 

 BatttiO Moodab further reserved to himself the 

 opium monopoly » and the Hajah di Rajah was to 

 receive half a Spanish dollar on each Bahar of tin. 

 Owing to the Nanuing disturbances, it wa^ not 

 until lately that the mines could be re-opened, and 

 Inchi Kattas seems to have seized upon this cir- 

 cumstance fLS a pretert ft^r disiionlinuing the 

 payment of a compulsory present, nr tnbfMtv io 

 Hum bow. 



We have already seen that the Rumbow 

 chiefs and Incbi Kattas reguded each other 

 with no friendly ey^ nt the eouftretice at Sim- 

 pang in January 1832, and ihefr private animos- 

 pity was considerably enhanced by their espuosing 



