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 S3i HISTORY OF MVA CONTINUED. disfiguring the face with his dagger. This scene of wild and savage barbarity did not end here. The young prince retired from the presence with dis- sembled resentment, and refusing compliance with the Sultan's order to surrender his accomplices, he prepared for resistance. The chief of Madura entreated the youth to desist from his rash enter- prise, and in doing this, embraced his feet accord- ing to the custom of the country. The prince put an end to his entreaties and his life by drawing his kris, and mortally wounding him in the throat, as he thus lay supplicating him. The retainers of the chief of Madura, who were witnesses to this trans- action, rushed upon the prince, and sacrificed him to their fury and resentment. The Sultan hearing of the loss of his brother, feigned a deep sorrow, accused himself of his death, unsheathed his dagger, and woundedhimself in the arm, as an expiation for the share he had in his death. Connected with this transaction is another of much greater atrocity. The Sultan, suspecting the priests of Mataram to be implicated in the conspi- racy of P anger an A lit, directed registers of them to be formed, and on pretence of conferring upon those of the capital some distinctions, had them as- sembled, when, upon a concerted signal, an indiscri- minate slaughter was commenced, and six thousand.