.THE DUTCH EXPEDITION TO THE ISLAND OF LOMBOK. 581 
Fire was first received at the passage of the River Babak and after- 
wards at the passage of the River Narmada near the palace of that 
name, but only one man and one mule were wounded. 
On approaching Tjakra Negara no enemy was seen and there was 
- no knowledge of the disaster to the bivouac. The whole column 
entered the town and still no natives were seen, when suddenly a 
tremendous rifle fire from loopholes on all sides smote the column 
killing many, including the Commander, Lieut.-Colonel van Lawick 
van Pabst. 
Communication between the 4th European company, the advanced- 
guard under Captain Christan and the main body, the 2nd Javanese 
_company, under Captain Lindgreen, was completely cut. The train 
was lost. 
Captain Christan forced his way, with his company and the two 
-mountain guns, past the deserted bivouac of the 6th battalion. It is 
singular that Captain Kamerman, 4th Huropean company, 6th battalion, 
still shut up in the temple there, made no attempt to join Captain 
Christan. The company held on to the western exit of the town and 
then, to avoid passing through Materam, struck north towards 
Goenoeng Sari, abandoning the two mountain guns by the way, having 
first rendered them unserviceable. The column passed between 
-Goenoeng Sari and Rembega, struck the shore and, following it 
southwards, reached Ampenan about 10 p.m. A portion of the com- 
pany, under Lieutenant de Tong, which had been cut off, not reaching 
_ the bivouac until 5 a.m. on the 28th, after suffering severe losses. 
Captain Lindgreen, with the 2nd Javanese company, 9th battalion, 
completely cut off and much harassed by fire, threw himself into the 
nearest cover, a temple on the north side of the great high road. 
Here he held out for nearly four days, surrounded by the enemy, lying 
between dead and wounded, without sleep, food or water and reduced 
to the last cartridge. Finally obliged to surrender at 1 p.m., September 
Ist ; they were conveyed as prisoners to Tjakra Negara and were not 
liberated until September 6th. 
‘This surrender of Captain Lindgreen’s was the subject of a very 
bitter correspondence in the Dutch newspapers; but, as that officer 
- has since been decorated, it is presumed that his action is upheld by 
the authorities. 
The only party now left to consider is that of the three sections of August 26th 
_the 4th European company, 6th battalion, under Captain Kamerman, 
- which had taken refuge in the temple near the bivouac when the 
main body fell back at about 3 p.m. on the 26th. 
During the afternoon of the 26th the firing of Van Bijlevelt’s 
column was heard gradually approaching and then passing away. All 
attempts to attract attention were of no avail. 
~ When, on the afternoon of the 27th, Van Lawick’s column reached August 27th, 
_ the town, the psssing of wounded artillery and pack-horses informed 
~ the besieged of the fate that had befallen this column also. ‘The 
_ presence of the party in the temple might have been made known by 
~ signals—for, as we have seen, the advanced-guard of the column 
