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Updated: June 5, 2025
Confidence alone could restore them; and I therefore intimated to the Patingi and Tumangong that there was no occasion for their seeking them; that I by no means desired their return; and that any of their people who wished to leave the country were at liberty to do so whenever they felt inclined.
As our force increased, the pirates retreated from their position, and could not again muster courage to rally. Their loss must have been considerable; ours might have been light, had poor old Patingi Ali attended to orders. As soon as he had done so, huge rafts of bamboo were lanched across the river, so as to cut off his retreat.
To the Patingi they paid a small yearly revenue of rice, but this deficiency of revenue was made up by sending them a quantity of goods chiefly salt, Dyak cloths, and iron and demanding a price for them six or eight times more than their value.
I explained the circumstances to the Patingi and Tumangong, and they acquiesced in the decision allowing the custom and said they had gained so much more than they had ever hoped for, that they could submit to the rest. "The next step was to assemble the Siniawans, who, since the close of the war, would run away, and whom it was found impossible to keep here.
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