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allowed for a reply, but none being sent a boat was a second time 
despatched on shore and returned with a note which stated thae 
the Rajah was not at Hatiling, and requesting to be allowed timt 
to communicate with him. This answer was regarded as a mere 
pretext for gaining time, nothing having been said of the Rajah’s 
absence when the first boat was sent, and the two corvettes 
immediately opened their fire, which the fort briskly returned. 
The same day the soldiers tried to carry the benting by assault, 
but they failed owing to a deep ditch by which it was defended. 
The following day the fire upon the fort was renewed and soon 
silenced that of the pirates, and a number of natives auxiliaries 
having arrived by land, a simultaneous assault was made by them 
and the soldiers and marines, by which the fort was carried. 
‘The Dutch troops had six men wounded in the assault, and the 
native auxiliaries a large number. Besides taking a number of 
pieces of artillery, twenty-four prahus were captured or destroyed. 
On the side of the Dutch there were altogether nine men killed, 
and twenty wounded. The benting was rased to the ground, and 
a fort built at Sawaay, garrisoned by an officer and 35 men for the 
protection of the population of Sawaay. The principal object of 
the expedition was however unattained, Rajah Jilolo having fled 
into the interior of the country, and his submission was still to be 
accomplished. This was obtained in the year 1825 by negotiation, 
the Rajah consenting to establish himself on the north coast of 
> the Great Ceram, under the protection of the government. His 
brother the prince Asgar was placed at the head of the settlement, 
with the title of Sultan. 
In 1824 one of the articles of the general contract concluded 
with the princes of Celebes, stipulated that the vessels of these 
princes, to be admitted into the Netherlands possessions, should be 
furnished with Dutch passports, and should conform in all that 
regarded the navigation and trade to the regulations of the 
government. This stipulation was justified on the ground that it 
: w r as necessary to check the pirates, who committed frightful 
devastation on the trade of this part of the Archipelago. The 
most formidable bands of the Celebes pirates were established at 
Tabunko and Toballo, two places situated to the southwest in the 
bay of Tolo, in the kingdom of Luhu. In the same year a treaty 
was concluded with the Sultans of Ternate and Tidor, by which 
these princes bound themselves to assist the eftbrts of the govern¬ 
ment against the pirates with men and ships. 
Mr Muntinghe, in a report made in 1821, mentions as places on 
Borneo which afford shelter to pirates, Sarawak, Kelakka, Moka, 
Sei'ibas and Palo, to the north of Sambas, and Succadana, Matam, 
and the islands of* Mankap, Panumbangan, Serutu and Carimata 
to the south of Sambas. In the south of Borneo, Kottaringin, 
Seway, Sintang, Pagatan, Passir, Koti and Boron, also more or 
less participated in piracy. 
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