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the Dutch, causing them much anxiety for their safety in the island. In one engagement, it is stated, the Dutch force was so completely cut up that only a colonel and his drummer succeeded in making their escape, to report the terrible issue of the cncoiniter. Fortunately, however, this daring defender of Javanese liberty was at last captured, and exiled either to Borneo or to some small adja- cent island.

Next morning we went out hunting the game we had in view being deer and wild boar, or any other wild animal we might come across, not ex- cej)ting even th(.' tiger. Om* host, with his rough- and-ready kind of field efpiipment, gave me the impression of having been accustomi'd to wild sports In the black forests of his mother country. lie ean'ied a )-ii!e and sword, and in his belt wore a dirk a weapon with whieli he also supplied each

of his gue^ts. Ml-. H, who was constantly in

the habit of joining in these jungle hunts, (observing

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