Kei’ta Sura.
A. J. 1605.
.A,D. 1679.
JVfangkurat.
skirmish: should retreat to the alun alun in confusion, exhibiting all the
appearance of a defeat, whiled the united party of the Raden Adipdtii and
Surapdti should appear to threaten-the krdtón. The Püngêran Pdgar being
strongly attached to Surapdti, received orders, that if, in the aflair with
the Dutch, the party of Surapdti and the minister should be worsted, he
should render them assistance, by sending his people to them clothed in
white,-the distinction adopted by Surapdti.
When the Dutch arrived* to, cover appearances, a new prime minister
was appointed. The commander requested assistance from 'the Susiinan,
who pointed out; to him the apparent state of affairs, and induced him to
believe that he was himself in danger from the attack ói: Surapdti. -Under
this impression, Tak made his arrangements j and the Dutch troops appeared
on the front alun alun at eight o’clock in the- morning, when they
were immediately attacked’ by Surapdti. After .four hóurs -of hard fighting,
Surapdti was repulsed; but reinforcements being sent hy sponger an Pugar,
and by the whole population of the city,, the- Dutch wereicompletely destroyed.
Tak, at his last extremity, „ordered out from the fort, two hundred
soldiers remaining there; hut as they could notijoin their companions,
■ they were immediately surrounded and cut up. O f the 'two-fhoüSand men,
eleven hundred and eighty-three lost their lives ; ’ and among them Tak,
who was mortally wounded .in the neck by the celebrated. 'pusdka spear of
■ Pangérdn Pugar. The -weapon was found blunted-at the point by the
chain jacket which Tak is said to havé worn on the occasion.
- The Susiinan now directed the Rdden Adipdti and Surapdti to take refuge
in the province of Passman, and assume the habit of devotees ;• while to
the Adipdtis of Madéra and Surabdya orders were given ,to follow them
at a certain distance, burning the villages and laying waste the country,. as
if in pursuit of an enemy. When Surapdti reached Pasürudn, he.took the
npme of- Adipdti Wwa Nagara.
The few Dutch who had survived made their escape to the fort.bf ;j«-
pdra4 which .was then more extensive than that at Semdrang. ■
After this the Susünan wrote to the commanding officer at Japdra,
informing him that Tak with all the party had been killed by the Rdden
Adipdti and Surapdti, who had also attacked him, but that he had at last
driven them to the .eastward, by the force he had collected under the
Adipdtis of Madéra and Surabaya. He also informed him that he had
elected a new prime minister, ip lieu of the one who had espoused $he
cause
pau§e.iQ^gurapdti. Susunap,,yfe?xjngr lest 'this <story might not be Kernsur».
believed»'fl3?d that he might-ibe1sdsne'0ed ofdi'aving assistedv Surapdti, sent -a.d.i$jy
with thisriettqri piJculs o&bi-rds’ ingsts, -fortyioxen; and'oilier .articles of Maogkurat,
value, * ^hich; he. entrusted- tehfcbê eatoAp/;',,a jpridi 'ggndobt® messenger of
distjöptiqn) named J^^^flg^swi^wstrüctiohs^toripark well.the thoughts
pf the cofnmander or. officer/who,:was tandrifpjhe shewed
thffile'ast suspicion iof the.-partftheï^tó^m diad> fekeb;.-mainly toldeny it,
and firmly iaunsist thotdh&SUsunanxf-&$, trae-heartedftó the Hollanders. He
morepverjpromised to his ambassador^/hat if he -succfeedecfiip averting the
angp.r -nf tfife Thatoh*-fye would reward him on-fhis return.
• This me.ssepger-accordingly'proceededitoVJapdraruwhen the chief officer,
after-reading life/-letter,r,,smd he had.heard ithe-Susünan wasiof one heart
jrith Surapdti; to which JdgdRdga replied;, thai'-what he had heard was
false,’ and that perhaps-the .story, might have originated in the part taken by
the ^Rdden Adipdti, .whose attachment to, Surapdti ‘"was -well kPowrifc He
then jeferred/oj the circumstance of the , country’s being laid waste by Surapdti
onriiis flight-to; the. eastward, in proof ófi'his pnmity. - The commander
heard Jh|s- explanation withlpatience, and after-recrivingMhd presents with
®jhjplj he was much pleased,- returned’ for .answer- to the' Susunan, that he
had first heard that he was TaVourable fo Surapdti, hut >^as. now convinced,
from tfie- explanation a^jdgd, '#at thesqrrcports-w«i-^ünf©a.ndéld;* .and 'that
heaWa§lsatisfied; of/hpilasting!attachment of his higbness-Ltb.-'thff; Dutch.
He. then thanked him for, his present, "and in return ispjitï'dne thousand
dpcatopns; withan.aS.sortment-tqfveLvets and c lo th . ,Thé messenger having
-thu^ucceeded,; was raispd...to^the hank and.(.station of Tumtin$güng- of
Japard, ,'by-jtbejnameiarld title ’of' Kidi Tumüng’gungïMdrta Püra. v
The nexfe indignity;offered<to the, JDütch.was by this'-man, rwho:laad»Kbl'd
e f^ h a lf cast Dutch soldierst Japdra,'^afifinsisted fiponihisf sitting on the
ground on his hams and dancing t^iQjanddk,.,after the fashiomófittHe Javans,
ÏW jhis .amusément. The Dutch, highlyfintensed, demSrided'&e immediate
release, of [the man-,; bufcithé Pumüng’gung. refusing, 'an application was:seht
to tbe„ Susünan, requesting’.that Marta. Pdrahm ight bé put ta;deathJT-The
Susünan -immediately sent for .Pgngêran Pégar and his minister, "and desired
theffi^ .to i communicate with. 'Marta Püra, an'd if''they founch he had: the
gdurageuto ihppóse Lthe DutchVto'give hiim-assistatice finder hand^or/a
promote his Success by-some stratagem, im the same'mannenasfhari heen -done
to Surapdtibut 'if nob to-let him'bèlsa’erifibèd,' as a punishment" fori'his
B M P ! & A cowardice.