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 SEQUEL OF JAVANESE HISTORY. S69 posed to the inclemencies of a tropical climate, and, consequently, swept off in numbers. Desertions were 'frequent even among the European troops, who were often found fighting, a strange spectacle in the history of Indian warfare, under the ban- ners of the native enemy. The probability is, that, had not their negociations and intrigues final- ly accomplished what their arms were unequal to, Mangkubumi would have subdued all the valua- ble part of the island, and established a powerful native sovereignty independent of their influence. After a series of abortive attempts to negociate with him, they at length succeeded, and in the year ly-'^^ a treaty was concluded, by which the heir of the ancient sovereignty was compelled to yield to him one half of his dominions. Mangkubumi and Mangkunagoro had at first acted in concert, the latter receiving the daugh- ter of the former in marriage, and serving as his minister. These ambitious chiefs, how^ ever, were soon estranged from each other, and Mangkunagoro parted with his father-in law, and set up for independence. He held out long after Mangkubumi had made his great bargain, and was not pacified, in the end, until he obtained, as a hereditary possession, a great estate or prin- cipality of four thousand families, (A, J. 1685, A. D. 1758.) VOL. II. A a ^