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the business. I asked if he knew the pirates. He said he would not know them as the affair occurred at night. Two days after the piracy, I came down to the Qualla with Mat Syed, and made inquiries. We went along the shore to Marib. Our boat stopped outside the Qualla of Jugra. We found nothing. We then returned to Langat. After the examination, Mat Syed remained at Langat, eight days before returning to Malacca. When returning from Maril, we all came into this room and waited for the tide to turn. I examined the people of the stockade, and they said they knew nothing of the affair. I was away from Bandar Langat making the inquiry two nights and one day, and he, Mat Syed, remained at Langat seven days after our return. Mat Seh was in charge of this stockade at the time. The piracy occurred about the twenty-fourth of Poasah. Mat Serd remained at Langat ten days after the piracy. Mahomed Bin Hassan arrived at Langat with the Lieutenant-Governor's letter seven days after the piracy.
I only know No. 4 and No. 6; No. 4 is Raja Yacob's writer and lives near his house, No. 6 buys and sells small things at Langat.
By No. 1.-I do not know you. I do not recollect you as Captain of Unku Allang's schooner.
By No. 2.I do not know you as a sailor on board Unku Allang's schooner.
By No. 3.-I recollect you as a Chinaman turned Musselman. Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, no questions.
The case for the prosecution is now closed, and prisoners are asked if they wish to make any statement and call any witnesses.
No. 1 says I have been employed in Unku Allang's boat for a year, and have a share in it. The boat was pulled up on shore, and I told Raja Yacob I wanted to go to Malacca, and asked for my share of the boat. Wah Maraga gave me 4 dollars for expenses to go to Malacca. 1 came down from Bandar to this and reported to the Wadman Mahomed Arsat that I was going to Malacca. He said you may go, and asked for the chukee kapala of a Boyan who was going with me. There were other four men with me who come and go, and they do not pay chukee kapala. Four men of the boat paid chukee kapala. There were eight of us in the boat altogether; after that I arrived at Malacca, and went ashore to buy cocoanuts, oil, and tobacco. I returned to my boat and Jemendar Mahomat came and arrested me. He came with Mat Syed who pointed out three of us, and we were arrested. There were four in the boat at the time. After I and my two. friends were arrested they pulled me about, and I wanted to adjust my clothes but he would not permit me, and struck me on the face and broke my teeth. After that he wanted to take my money, but I refused them. Che Mat, a constable, asked me for 2 dollars, and promised to release me, but I did not give him anything. At the station I gave all my money to Jemedar Mahomet. He counted the money which amounted to 63 dollars. That is all. The musket and the sword claimed by Mat Syed are both mine. The musket I bought at Langat from a man whose name I do not know, and the sword I purchased at Malacca, the sarong does not belong to me.
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No. 2 says-1 was employed in Unku Allang's prow for four months. After the prow was pulled up, Kassim (No. 3) asked me to go to Malacca and trade a little. We arrived at Malacca at 7 P.M., and next day I went on shore, at 6 P.M. I was arrested in my boat. There were four of us in the boat, but only three were arrested. I had only in the boat one kain pry, and some old clothes in an old box. The sarong produced is
It belongs to No. 7's wife, and was bought in Salangore a long time ago. not mine.
No. 3.-I am a Chinaman turned Mahomedan. A Chinaman at Bandar assisted me to extent of about 60 or 70 dollars, and I opened a shop near Unku Allang's house. employed a coolie named Lim May at 3 dollars per month to look ofter my shop. I have kept the shop about a year and-a-half. I left my cooly in charge of the shop and went to Malacca to purchase some things. I accompanied Nos. 1 and 2 and five other men. Four of them were passengers. We stopped at this stockade in coming down, and come on shore and saw Inchi Marsat in the inside stockade, and asked if I could go to Malacca, and he said, "Yes." He asked what I had in the boat. I told him twenty pieces of firewood, and that I had a little money to buy things in Malacca. I arranged to get the chukee kapala from the four Boyans at Malacca. We went to Malacca, and the four Boyans paid me the chukee, 2 dollars. The day after we arrived, I purchased some clothes, cocoanuts, and betelnut About GP.M. the police came, without uniform, and asked where we were from, and I said from Langat. They came on board, chewed betel, and said if we were Langat men we must be arrested. Mat Syed pointed out Nos. 1, 2, and myself, and we were arrested. Mr. Hayward examined me and said if I would become a witness, I would be released, but I told him I knew nothing. The sarong is not mine, I saw the wife of Ibrahim wearing it at Langat, it was not found in my boat. The gun and sword belong to No. 1. The gun he has used for a long time, and the
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sword he purchased at Malacca some time before. He bought it and another at Malacca six or seven months ago. The spear claimed by Mat Syed was borrowed by me two years ago, and if it had been here, I could have produced the owner of it, who is called Pah Lamiat.
No. 4.I have lived with Unku Allang two or three years. He orders me to do some work and write a little. Sometimes he sent me to Malacca and other places, and I became the master of his boat, I live in a plank house at Langat. Lately he sent me to take a letter to Padang.
On 23rd Shawal he sent me away to Padang with three letters to receive money. One to Inchi Wan Andah, and I was to receive from him 200 dollars. One to Hadjec Mahomed Taip, and he was to give me 300 dollars, and the other to Nacodah Mahomed Tyre, and to get from him 150 dollars. He gave me a boat and arms, a gong, and every- thing complete in the boat. All the arms as stated by Mr. Warne. Malacca about ! P.M., and were waiting to go into the river when Mr. Warne came and We arrived at arrested us at the mouth of the river about half-an-hour after our arrival. I showed him (Warne) the letters, and told him I was going to Padang. Unku never told me to plunder a boat, and I never did so, I do not know Mat Syed. I do not belong to this stockade.
No. 5.-I have nothing to say, I always go together with No. 4, and I live and work with him.
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No. 6.-I have nothing to say. I was formerly with Raja Doraman during the war in Klang. After we took the hill I went to Langat, and resided with Unku Allang, and got my living by buying and selling in boats. No. 4 took me with him to Malacca. went to my brother's house there, and heard that the boat was arrested and the men on board taken to the station. I walked with my nephew, and a peon came looking for me and arrested me.
No. 7.-The sarong is mine, there are many like it here, I purchased it at Langat a long time ago. Unku Allang ordered me to plant paddy. Unku Allang ordered me to go with Musa to Padang, and we arrested at Malacca.
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No. 8.-I am very young, I know nothing, I followed my father to sail. I know nothing more. I was arrested. No. 6 is my father.
Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, call Raja Yacob as their witness.
Raja Yacob (called also Unku Allang), sworn, states, (examined by No. 1).-No. 1 is my servant and employed in my boat, I never knew anything against his character. (Examined by No. 2).--No. 2 has also been employed in my boat along with No. 1. I have never heard or known anything against him. (Examined by No. 3).-No. 3 is a shopkeeper, I gave a wife.
By No. 4, never found anything against No. 4. He has been employed by me since the war Klang with Raja Nahdi. He has been Nacodah of my boat and gone to Penang during the disturbances at Quilla Lumpor. I ordered him to go to Panang.
By No. 5.-No. 5 is employed by me and is under my orders. He does every thing I order him,-never found him in fault in anything. He always goes with No. 4. By No. 6, I have not known anything bad of No. 6. Have known him since the war
at Klang with Raja Mahdi. Do not know if he is a Langat man. small things. He does not reside at the stockade.
He fishes and sells
By No. 7.-No. 7 is one of my men. but has worked in the paddy fields. He is a boy yet, and I know nothing against him. No. 8 asks nothing.
He has not been in the habit of going to sea
By Court.-I made this stockade when Raja Doraman wanted to take back Klang from Mahdi four years ago. My father ordered me to look after the stockade, so that traders might go to and fro with safety. The guns were put here by my orders. I ordered this new stockade to be made, it was not intended for war. put at the back lest people might attack us.
The ranjaws were I ordered the look-out house to be made. It is not armed and a musket ball would go There are long ranjaws to keep out pigs through it.
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Last month of Ponsah, Marsat sometimes, Mat Sek sometimes, and Sallam sometimes were the headmen. There never were more meu in the stockade than twenty, and it never was certain who were stationed there, but people sometimes came to fish and for pleasure. My orders were to protect people going out or into the river. The only duties collected here ten gantangs per coyan of rice, all other duties were collected at Langat.
On 25th, Poasah, I cannot say who was in charge of the stockade as they used to change about, my orders were if anything went wrong to report to me.
About 25th, Poasah, Sallam, and Semat brought Mat Syed to the hill to me and