306 REPORT OK THE ISLAND OF BANKA, 
of the kingdom. Various artifices were effectually employed by one 
of his adherents, an intriguing courtier who had followed him in his 
travels. Sultan Agong (his uncle) at Palemb&ng-lama had no male 
issue; by marrying his only daughter he became heir apparent to 
half of the kingdom; but for this purpose it was necessary first to 
effect a separation from her husband Pangeran Dyaya. This having 
succeeded, at the death of his father-in law, Raden Lambu assum¬ 
ed the title of Sultan Agong. 
Various contentions were now fomented and kept up between the 
new prince at Plembang-lama, and his elder brother at Kebbongedde, 
The interference and assistance of the Dutch was solicited and ob¬ 
tained by the successor of Sultan Agong. Several vessels were sent 
from Batavia. A stratagem was employed to prevent Sultan Anom 
from employing those means of security and defence which he pos¬ 
sessed. After an apparently friendly visit a fire was opened on his 
palace from the ships in the river; being at the same time attacked 
by land, and with boats from Palembang-lama, Sultan 'Anom was 
obliged to desert his palace. He first retired to Dshambi and sub¬ 
sequently established himself on Banka where he collected his ad¬ 
herents and for ten successive years bid defiance to his brother : He 
would doubtless have renewed his pretensions in a formidable man¬ 
ner and encountered him at the capital had he not been finally rout¬ 
ed by an expedition from Batavia, of which the records are still in 
the archives of that place, and which terminated in the year 1732. 
Some extracts will be added from it in the sequel. 
By this revolution Raden Lambu, the younger brother of Sultan 
Anom, and by matrimony successor to Sultan Agong, obtained the 
entire possession of the kingdom of Plembang: he commenced his 
reign in the year 1722 with the title of Sultan Mahmud Badur 
Udin. A regular contract was now concluded with the Commis¬ 
sioners from Batavia in which he engaged to furnish, on certain fix¬ 
ed conditions, the principal productions of Plembang and Banka to 
the Dutch East India Company, which was ratified at Batavia in the 
following year. The names of the principal person who formed this 
tract, Abraham Patras, as well as of the commander of the expedi- 
