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laying out money, got unexpectedly and for nothing- 
He therefore consenting, went, accompanied by ten or 
twelve of his people, into the fort, and waited on the 
governor, who showed him civility and respect. He then 
laid out his dollars. Presently a guard was turned out ; 
and they thought themselves so siire of their prisoner, 
that they did not even shut the gates. When it was 
announced to him that he must surrender, he whispered 
to his people— who were ready to mangmno (ran a muck) 
upon the occasion to serve their master, or sell their lives 
dear — ^not to stir in his defence, but to save themselves ; 
which, while the Rajah was delivering up his cress 
(dagger), they immediately did ; and running out of 
the fort, they got on board their corocoro, and escaped. 
The Rajah is now a prisoner at the Cape. Possibly the 
Dutch allowed his people to get away."* 
It must be remembered that this affair took place 
when the government of Netherlands' India was in the 
hands of a trading company, so that the Dutch nation is 
only indirectly responsible. Indeed, I should have hesitated 
in bringing it forward at a time when our own adminis- 
tration in the East presents many tender points, had not 
common justice towards the Papuans rendered it neces- 
sary to produce e^lence, that would tend to show how^ it 
has happened, that three centuries of intercourse with an 
European race settled in their immediate neighbourhood, 
has been anything hut favourable to the advance of the 
native tribes of New Guinea. 
♦ Forrest, " Toyage to New Guinea," p. 147, 
