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gratitude, refused to pay allegiance to his father's benefactor, and commenced building a Kraton which he called Passar Gede. The Sultan of Padjang, on hearing of this rebellious conduct, immediately sent messengers with orders for the instant demolition of the new Kraton. The young ])rince not only insulted the officers of the Sultan, lAit sent them back with a message of defiance to their master, whom he further offended by the completion of the Kraton he had been ordered to pull down. Finding his demands thus scoffed at and scorned, the liatu resohed to ])ursue ano- ther course. As he neither sent any further deniantl, nor took any hostile measures against him, the rash youth Ix'gan to congratulate himself on the success of the l)old stej)S he had taken. Put his joy was ])remature. P^astern jjotentates are not so easily turned from any course on which tlu'V have once decided. If they cannot accom- plish it by fair means, they will by foul. So it

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