SUlUUiNDlilt OF 5ANT0T. 



de rEati, to tlie effect, that if he would come 

 alone to liim, ho would innki- foiiditioiis to sur- 

 render liimself to the Dutch govcrumeut ; Lieu- 

 tenant tleTEau, with some confidence, ventured. 

 On being ijttmdiiced, AH Bikssa, who 

 seated on a mat, dcsii'ed the lieiiteuaut to sit 

 down hy liim ; and the interview terminated hy 

 Santot surrendering to him, on condition that 

 he should not be beheaded. Having entered 

 the Dutch service, he was sent, with the T^i- 

 ifti^t of Haitave troops under his command, to 

 the seat of war in the iskiud of Sumatra. The 

 cause of" Ids return to Batavia was a suspieion 

 entcitained by the resident at Padang, of his 

 being itt mm^ correspondira!^ i0k ^etny, 

 and the following s^iit^m was |»:acti8^ to con- 

 vey him as a prisoner to Batavia. 



Santot was stationed at some distance from 

 Padang, with about eight hundred Javanese 

 troops ; aii4 ba^psd lie itm ^^^hsi #d 

 na^tes at iiim of iM laa^^e, Ihe l>tttek 

 at Padang suspected he must have liad some 

 knowledge nf the preconeerted plan to destroy 

 the European force. The resident, afraid to 

 makis any open charge against him, requested 

 he would proeeed to Java, at i^ urgetki sdlicita- 

 lions pf the governor-general, to collect a large 

 {hree, and rotuni to conqu^sr Sumatra. Upon 



