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OP JAVA. 29 sed at this, and said to the inhabitants, * I will re- ward whoever finds for me the body of Surapati/ Those people forgot their lord, and accepted the proffered bribe. The commissary was shown the spot where was the chief's grave, but it was level, and no one could discern it was a tomb. The body was dug for and found. It was still entire as when alive, and shed a perfume like a flower garden. The Hollanders bore it away to the camp, and placing it in a sitting posture in a chair, the officers took the corpse by the hand, saluting it according to the custom of their country, and tauntingly exclaiming, * This is the hero Surapati, the mighty warrior, the enemy of the Dutch/ After this they threw the corpse into a great fire, and burnt it to ashes, and the ashes they took and preserved. The commissary rejoiced in his heart at all this." In the year 174^0, the Javanese joined the Chi- nese, with the hope of expelling the Dutch from the island after they had perpetrated the well- known massacre of the Chinese at Batavia. The mi- nister of the Susuhuman, commanding the Javanese army on its route to the European establishment of Samarang on the coast, is afflicted with a dream, of which circumstance the annalist renders the fol- lowing account :