Kerts Sura.
As Jv 1632.
A.U. 1706.
condition that this contract- should be faithfully observed y otherwise thé
said daims and pretensions to retain their former validity* fn consideration
a of this important remission,, his; highness promised to supply, the-,Company*»
during twenty-five years, commencing in. 1706,, with, eight hundred- lasts of
good rice annually, deliverable at BataviaJ-bjT.his- highness’s ■ Ofwni vessels*
Art article, was afterwards added to-this treaty, by which it^as stipulated,
that n^i. other European nation» than the' Dutch should ever >be permitted; to;
trade or build factories on- Java..
On-the 11th-October 1705,* a_further agreement was entered. into:by his.
highness,, by wh^clr he promised to bear the expense-of. keeping, a. detach-’
ment of twpj hundred men of the .Dutch- troops at Kérta-surafor his. high-;
«essis» protection, and sedulity, amounting; to thirteen hundred Spanish’,
dollars per monfch>;r'
On the 12th July 1-706,. a treaty forc determining-- the boundaries, hptweers
the territories of the Susdnan and those bfjhe Dutch Was ten^ré8^iö8§^
The deposed* prince, Susdnan MangJcurat Mias, ,, after flyings from' his,
capital, proceeded to the .^astern districts, antijpinings; Surapdti,. reduced,
the eastern provinces under their-, authority, and appeared, confident, > of
success,, being possessed of immense treasures in specie- and ..jewels,^which
he had carried off with him*
In JL706,- however, the army.pif Surapdti was defeated By the_, ^ijd^)utch-
and Javan forces, and Kedtri was taken. - Subscqnentls^fK’gji large- com-
bined army of MangJcurat Mas and Surapdti was^pnt to;the^rptit and disj
persed. Surapati- shortly after died in the mountains- of Bdngife.ggqg^ding;
to some, accounts, qf the effect of -htó wounds. , He .Was,^ucp^ejmjiin('dfficer
by his son, Pangdtingr who took the name of Adipdti Wira. Nagdva, and
being allied by marriage to the chiefs.ofi Kediri,/Balambdng’anc. and Grêsik,
brought many of the eastern districts again to acknowledge the authority, of
MangJcvrat' Mas. . Additional forces were,, in consequence,- -sent .from
Batavia.by the Dutch, which arrived- at Semdrang in 17Q7> and immediately,
proceeded first to Kérta-süra, and then to the eastward. . Falling in \y„ith
thejenemy in Mddion, they put him to flight, and continued;jtheir march to-
Svrcibdycty where the disturbances which had broken- out. on- -the island of
Madéra obliged them to halt. ■
On the death of the native chief of Madéra* his eldest natural son, Sdstra
Nagdra, had declared himself his succesor,. and placed troops round • the
island*
* Contract with M< De Wilde.
island, -to oppose fh.e landing o f his uncle, Bidden JSdria Nagara, who had
'been, 'appointed to the succession* by the Dutch*- The Dutch, however,
-found means -to satisfy both parties, by conferring the separate charge of
•S&mpang on .Sdstra, jSFngdray--
■ A t Sdtnenap ihey met wvith greater difficulty. The native chief, Ndga
‘Bidérma, had been stabbed bji^hfe-secretary tf'the secretary was afterwards
■ killed by -the' slavgfof1 the-Chief. A tumult was thus excited, and the Dutch
commanding' officer-having given .offence to the principal inhabitants, they
ptoGeed-ed -with a large proportion of thé population to the northern part of
the island. The* Dutch at length succeeded in establishing-the infant son
o£;the; dëceasfed as chief of Sdmenap, with the title of Baden Tumung'gung
*Pring’ga Kaséma, under the guardianship of his mother, JRdtU Siddyu.
With thpse proceedings the campaign closed for that year,*
" In the following year, I-7O8; the Dutch sént further reinforcements to the
.eastward, .*arid preparations were making for opening the campaign, when
'jthetfügttive Susdnan hearing.of the arrival of the Dutch sA, Surabdya, sent
.ambassadors to. their 'representative {K'nol)j soliciting his pardon and an
‘assignment-of.'some lands, independent of any other,authority than that of
»the -Dutch government. No sooner had he been promised this than he
teame toJSwrabdyu, where1 ha-was received on the 1 7 th-July by Knol, who
'delivered to him a letter -of pardon written in the Dutch and Javan languages,
promising to him the independent possession of a district as a principality,
subordinate only to the Dutch government. But, alas 1 these con.
«cessions were soon .found to be nothing more than a stratagem to get possession
bf the prince’s person. The unfortunate Susdnan, unsuspicious of the
treachery, was quietly embarked at Surabdya on the 24th August, and with
his three sons, his wife, concubines, and attendants, conveyed to Batavia.
h The Dutch accounts relate, that as soon as the prince arrived at Batavhk,
'the commissioners, who had received him on board and accompanied him to
2 v&?2 1 ' the
* The native writers, relate a strange-proceeding of the Dutch commandant in this war.
u As soon as the Dutch commander arrived at PasUruan, he assembled the people, and
“«offered a reward of one. thousand dollars to any one who would bring him the body of the
“ deceased chief Surapdti. The body was accordingly brought in a perfect state of preserva-
“ tiön', on which the commandant ordered it to be placed upright in a chair, as if still living.
>“ He then approached it, took it byrthe .hand, and-made his obeisance to it a& to a living
person: all the officers and men followed the example. After this they burnt the body, and
haying mixed the ashes with gunpowder, fired a salute with it in honour of the victory.
Kerta Sura.
A.J. 1634.
A. D. 1768.
Pakubina 1st.