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 324} HISTORY OF JAVA CONTINUED, of Madura and Java, and used the following stra- tagem to disengage the two first of the confede- rates that opposed his progress, the princes of Ma- diyon and Pronorogo. He selected a beautiful wo- man, of the highest rank, and sent her as liis am- bassador to the jirince of Madiyon, who, by the way, affected the habits and life of a devotee. The chief of Mataram called him of Madiyon father, v^hich is equivalent, by the customs of Java, to tendering submission, and acknowledging depend- ance or inferiority. The lady was particularly in- structed to resist no solicitation of the prince. She obeyed his instructions, and by her blandishments seduced him from his alliance. The Senopati meanwhile attacked the prince of Fronorogo, and surprised him with two hundred chosen horse, led by himself in person, after which success, without farther ceremony, he fell upon the prince of Madiyon, and obtained an easy victory. This chieftain, flying from his palace, with his fa- mily, left his favourite daughter behind him, as a decoy to his antagonist, and this lady was after- wards married to the prince of Mataram, The prince of Mataram having attacked the pro- vince of Pasiiruha7i, the chief of that district would have submitted, but was dissuaded by a re- fugee from Blambangan, a chief called Adipati KaniteUy to whom he gave the command of his troops. This person having challenged the chief