of poison, but the operation being slow, and tbe
despot pressing his death by repeated messages
from the palace, his relative seized him by the hair of
the head, dragged him to the ground, and strangled
bim by treading on his neck ! !
(A. J. 1637, A. D. 1704.)—The Susunan
Mangkorat was succeeded by his son, who took
the title of Mangkorat Mas, but he was not
many months seated on the throne, when his
tyrannical and violent conduct drove his uncle,
the Pangerart Pugar, into rebellion. This prince
fled to Samarang to the Dutch, and being countenanced
by them, was installed Susunan under their
auspices. The consequence was a civil war, which
raged in the central and eastern districts of the
island for four years, and which ended in the
seizure of the person of Mangkorat Mas, by an
act of treachery on the part of the Dutch, and
his final banishment to Ceylon. Mangkorat Mas
appears to have been a tyrant, voluptuous, and
wanton, equally destitute of talents and of prudence.
His character, and probably that of many
an eastern despot, is pourtrayed in the following
anecdote of him, which is circumstantially related
by thé Javanese writers : In his flight from his capital,
proceeding eastward to join the force of the
gallant and intrepid Surapati, he halted in the
distant and secluded district of Pronôrogo, and
here, unconscious that he had already virtually lost;
SEQU EL OF JAVANESE HISTORY.
his honour and his crown,, he gave himself up to,
every illiberal pleasure. The loyal chief of the
district, to gratify his prince, directed an inclosure
to be constructed, and here assembled a variety of
game, to afford him, at an easy rate, the diversion
of shooting. The Susunan, with his family, men.
and women, repaired to the spot, and, taking up a
bow and arrow, he began the sport by shooting a
deer. The chief of Pronorogo, seeing the game
fall, ran into the inclosure, and directed the priest to,
slaughter the animal according to the rites of the Ma-
homedan religion, that it might be legal food. But
he was unused to the severe punctilio, of a Javanese
court, which permits no order, however trivial or indifferent,
to be given in the presence without the
royal nodof assent. The brutal and infatuated prince
proceeded on the spot to punish this breach of etiquette,
and, before the thousands who were assembled,
not forgetting the females, of his, own family,
ordered the chief to be emasculated, and had
the satisfaction to. see his host faint before, him
from the, pain of the operation. This, act \%$,s tp,o
much even for the forbearance and slavish loyalty
of the Javanese ; and the relations, of the chief of
Pronorogo were preparing to retaliate, but the Su-
susan, receiving notice of their intentions? eluded
their vengeance by a precipitate flight.
The Pangeran Pugar took the title of Pqkubur
tyono, a name which has since descended fp all