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 SEQUEL OF JAVANESE HISTORY. 36^ showing an example of intrepidity in every situa- tion, of danger or difficulty. From the ambition and enterprise shown by them on this occasion, there is little doubt, but, in the absence of Euro- peans, they would have made themselves masters of the island, and, supported by the swarms of emi- grants from China, have established a permanent supremacy in it. Their abuse of the right of conquest, and their violation of the laws of war, were, however, still more flagrant than those of any of the belligerent parties. They almost constantly put their prisoners to death in cold blood ; and to burn and ravage the country were certain attendants upon their march. After a rapid series of advanta- ges, for example, they entered Gartasura. The prince had but just time to escape, and was forced to abandon almost the whole of his family. The Chinese, on this occasion, forcibly seized the females and violated them, not excepting the queen-mo- ther, and the wives of the Susunan. In the wan- tonness of their brutality, they even made the un- fortunate princesses dance naked before them ! In the year 1675 of the Javanese era, (A. D. 1749,) Fakuhu'wonoy the second of the name, was succeeded by his son the third of the name. The rebellion of Mangkubumi, already alluded to, which commenced in the former reign, ended in this by a schism in the native power, by which two equal sove- reignties were established in the central districts