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On their arrival, however, they were, contrary to their expectation, drafted into regiments doing garrison duty at the different forts in the island, especially those of Soerabaya, Samarang, Salatiga, Ambarrawa, Solo, and Djokdja. Some of them patiently bore this disappointment, and made up their minds to serve out the time without a murmur. Others, however, who were more irri- tated by the deception which had been practised upon them, readily listened to the bold but mad projects of one Borjot, a clever, intelligent, and determined man, who proposed to massacre all the Dutch in the island, and to make Java a republic like their beloved Switzerland.

This man, having first sounded the sentiments of those in the other garrisons, and finding only too many glad to accept his propositions, fixed the day and hour when, in each place, the foreign soldiers should rise simultaneously and massacre every one of Dutch blood, extending mercy only

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