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 34}6 SEQUEL OF JAVANESE HISTORY. by a Dutchman of the name of Hese, whose favour and confidence he gained, and abused, by an in- trigue with his natural daughter, by a native wo- man. The slave was detected, corporally punish- ed, and placed in the public stocks, from whence, with sixty of his countrymen in a similar state of durance, he effected his escape, massacring the centinels and guards of the prison. After a series of extraordinary adventures, in the vicinity of Bata- via, in the Prayangan mountains, and at Cheribon, he proceeded eastward, and, trusting to the secret ha- tred of the Susuhunan to the Dutch, threw himself upon his generosity, A. J. l6u8, (A. D. 1684.) The Susuhunan, disgusted at the ignominious thral- dom in which he was himself held, countenanced Surapati in secret, and when his person was demand- ed, evaded giving him up, upon the plea of respect- ing the laws of hospitality, but pretended to give leave to seize him in any part of his dominions. The Dutch, to effect this latter object, sent to Cartasura a force of a thousand men, in addition to the troops already there. Surapati had ingratiated himself with the first minister, and obtained this chief's daughter in marriage. The Susunan directed the minister openly to espouse his cause, and, in the event of their being overpowered, ordered his brother, the Pan- geran Pugar, to render fartiier assistance. An ac- tion commenced in front of the palace, in the great square, where the Dutch force was overpowered,