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SEQUEL OF JAVANESE HISTORY. 347 and nearly the whole, with their commander, Tak, destroyed, for the greater part of the native inhabit- ants of the city fell upon them. Surapati, after the battle, retired, by the advice of the Susuhunan, to the eastward ; and, seizing upon the district of Pasuruhan, he in time added to it those of Bangil, Probolingo, Japan, Wirosobo, and others, which he continued to govern well for more than twenty years, when he lost his life in a drawn battle fought between him and the Dutch in the Javanese year 1631, (A. D. I707O He was unquestionably die greatest and most extraordinary person that the his- tory and revolutions of Java present to our observa- tion ; one, in short, of those hardy and intrepid geniuses which are of rare occurrence in any age or state of society. The following well authenticated anecdote af- fords a singular picture of native manners, and of the conduct of the Dutch. In the early period of the Dutch authority, their principal establish- ment to the east was at Japara. Here a quarrel having ensued between a Dutchman and a native of the place, the chief Martopuro considering the former in fault, had him punished, according to a common practice of the country, by streaking his face with lime and turmeric, and thus exposing him to the ridicule of the populace in the common mar- ket place. The Dutch chief communicated on the subject with the authorities at iiatavia, and the life of Martopuro was demanded as an expiation for his