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REPORT ON THE ISLAND OF BANKA, 
The settlements of Kutto-waringin and Tampelang were now 
successively plundered, the stockades burnt and the environs laid 
waste. The large rivers of Mendu, Kotto-waringin and Jering 
afforded them in this part of the island a most convenient shelter 
whence they carried their enterprises to Belo and Rangam, in the 
sight of Minto : the inhabitants of these settlements relate at the 
present period with earnest simplicity the dread in which they con¬ 
stantly lived. The only inhabitants of Plembang who attempted 
with some success to limit their progress was Demang Siuga Yuda 
commonly know as Demang Singa. 
In several of his expeditions he succeeded in liberating numerous 
inhabitants who had been captured, he entered successively the 
rivers of Jering and Kutto-waringin, and finally obliged the pirates 
to relinquish their permanent establishments in this part of the is¬ 
land, but the effects of their ravages are at the present time very 
obvious. At Kutto-waringin and Tampelang many of the inhabitants 
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have been carried away, and other have contracted a disposition to 
pillage and murder from the example of the pirates. 
One of the last exploits of the Lanons was undertaken against the 
settlement at Jehus. The difficulty with which an enterprise is con¬ 
ducted in this part of the island, on account of the impediments af¬ 
forded by the natural situation of the country, with the vicinity of 
the capital, yields the strongest proof of the defiance of the Lanons, 
and of the reluctance of the Sultan of Plembang to afford assistance 
to Ills unfortunate subjects on Banka. But at this place the exten¬ 
sive population of the Chinese was alone sufficient to repel the attack ; 
the Lanons however occupied all the rivers along the northern coast 
of the island, whence they annoyed the inhabitants by inroads into 
the country. 
The settlement of Sungie-bulu bounding thatofJebus was at 
this time guarded by Demang Surontakka, better known as Demang 
Minyak, the chief of the Rayads of Bank& in the service of Plembang; 
it was, notwithstanding, exposed to partial molestation especially 
on the northern coast. 
The town of Minto is the only inhabited part of Bank& which did 
