582 THE DUTCH EXPEDITION TO THE ISLAND OF LOMBOK. 
passed quite close by. But, seeing that this would draw the advanced- 
guard in front of the palace, from the loopholes in the walls of which 
a murderous fire was likely to be poured upon it, and that the chance 
of escape lay precisely in the opposite direction, Major Hamerster 
decided not to make the signals and the advanced-guard passed on. 
Matters were approaching a crisis; the men were suffering from 
hunger and thirst; the air was becoming pestiferous from the smell of 
the corpses in the abandoned bivouac. 
At 9 p.m. on the 27th, under cover of the darkness, the little troop 
slipped out of the temple to the south, cleared the town and then 
proceeded in a south-westerly direction till they struck the shore on 
the early morning of the 28th and were conveyed to Ampenan on 
ships boats. 
Losses. —When things had become more settled, and after Lindgreen 
and his men had been liberated, the losses during this period were 
estimated at :— 
Killed—97, of whom 9 were officers, 50 Huropeans and 38 native 
soldiers. 
Wounded—272, of whom 17 were officers, 103 Huropeans and 
152 native soldiers (of whom one officer, three Huropeans 
and 5 natives died afterwards). 
Missing—10 Huropeans and 16 natives, which figures were after- 
wards reduced to five and nine respectively. 
Total—395. 
A very heavy loss in a force only numbering, all told, 2215 com- 
batants, for to it, at the time of the catastrophe, must be added the 
whole of Lindgreen’s company. 
The losses among the convicts and animals are not given, but must 
have been very heavy. 
Four field and two mountain guns were lost. 
CoMMENTS. 
Thus ends the first period of the campaign and it is impossible to 
read the accounts without being struck by several points :— 
1. That, although the native troops displayed good fighting 
qualities, yet, when there was work to be done of a more than usually 
dangerous character, the Huropean companies were selected first, e.g., 
Kamerman’s company as rear-guard at Tjakra Negara and Christan’s 
company as advanced-guard of Van Lawick’s column. 
2. ‘he Dutch appear to have been but indifferently served by their 
cavalry :— 
(a.) Note the position of the cavalry during the advance on 
Materam. 
(b.) Cool, in explaining the selection of the bivouac ground at 
Tjakra Negara, says: “ Unacquainted as we were with the 
real extent of Tjakra Negara, it seemed to Captain 
Willemstijn (of the General Staif) as if there was no end 
1 “ Ag the Rajah did not have the wounded native soldiers killed, as he did the Europeans, but 
spared them in order to make use of them, it is probable that of the about 100 missing, at least 
half were still alive and in the hands of the Rajah” (Schulze), 
