32(5 REPORT ON THE ISLAND OF BANKA. 
Mapur and Jeniang and the mines in that direction, as has already 
been stated, suffered most from the aggressors. 
The western peninsula of the northern division being in a mea- 
sure overawed by the vicinity of the capital was more cautiously at¬ 
tempted ; but besides the entire desertion of the settlement of Klab* 
bet-laut, this portion was equally harassed with the rest by the In¬ 
terception of all supplies ; and the audacity of the pirates may be 
estimated by the incursions they made here to the mines of Sunee 
in the neighbourhood of the large settlement at Klahbet, carrying 
off captives the defenceless miners they found at work, or surprizing 
them at night in their habitations. 
The indifference of the inhabitants has preserved but few accurate 
dates relating to the events above detailed; those which I collected 
at Minto from written documents place the first attempt on Klab- 
bet in 1789; the attack on Sungie liatat)792; the expedition 
through the southern districts by way of Kappo to Tubuali between 
] 792 and 93; the defeat of Koba and its consequent occupation by 
Pangllma Raman in 1793; after which the other attacks occured 
in rapid succession. 
The emigration from Minto of numerous families on account of 
the fate of Abang Tawi took place in 1792 : the flight of Raden 
Japhar from Plembang in 1797; the attack on Jebus by the La- 
nons in 1790 ; and the death of Raden Japhar in 1804. In the year 
1803 Sultan Mahmud Badoor Udin (the second) succeeded his fa¬ 
ther on the throne of Plembang, but the calm which soon succeeded 
in the affairs of Banka was not owing to his endeavours to lelieve 
the distresses of the island ; if the relations given by the natives are 
just, he was more reluctant than his father'to employ his means for 
its relief. The details which arc given at the present period by 
the inhabitants of the late condition of the island are characterized 
by a uniform narration of calamities. The fatal effects of the small, 
pox, the fate of the natives perishing in the woods for want of food, 
or giving themselves into voluntary captivity, and the excesses of 
the Lanons are the constant themes of conversation, and are repeated 
to the stranger with that pathetic simplicity which vouches for their 
