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'
Luck
served
him
as
to
weather
.
A
few
days
of
calm
would
have
brought
unmentionable
horrors
on
board
that
schooner
,
but
with
the
help
of
land
and
sea
breezes
,
in
less
than
a
week
after
clearing
the
Sunda
Straits
,
he
anchored
off
the
Batu
Kring
mouth
within
a
pistol-shot
of
the
fishing
village
.
'
Fourteen
of
them
packed
into
the
schooner
's
long-boat
(
which
was
big
,
having
been
used
for
cargo-work
)
and
started
up
the
river
,
while
two
remained
in
charge
of
the
schooner
with
food
enough
to
keep
starvation
off
for
ten
days
.
The
tide
and
wind
helped
,
and
early
one
afternoon
the
big
white
boat
under
a
ragged
sail
shouldered
its
way
before
the
sea
breeze
into
Patusan
Reach
,
manned
by
fourteen
assorted
scarecrows
glaring
hungrily
ahead
,
and
fingering
the
breech-blocks
of
cheap
rifles
.
Brown
calculated
upon
the
terrifying
surprise
of
his
appearance
.
They
sailed
in
with
the
last
of
the
flood
;
the
Rajah
's
stockade
gave
no
sign
;
the
first
houses
on
both
sides
of
the
stream
seemed
deserted
.
A
few
canoes
were
seen
up
the
reach
in
full
flight
.
Brown
was
astonished
at
the
size
of
the
place
.
A
profound
silence
reigned
.
The
wind
dropped
between
the
houses
;
two
oars
were
got
out
and
the
boat
held
on
up-stream
,
the
idea
being
to
effect
a
lodgement
in
the
centre
of
the
town
before
the
inhabitants
could
think
of
resistance
.
'
It
seems
,
however
,
that
the
headman
of
the
fishing
village
at
Batu
Kring
had
managed
to
send
off
a
timely
warning
.
When
the
long-boat
came
abreast
of
the
mosque
(
which
Doramin
had
built
:
a
structure
with
gables
and
roof
finials
of
carved
coral
)
the
open
space
before
it
was
full
of
people
.
A
shout
went
up
,
and
was
followed
by
a
clash
of
gongs
all
up
the
river
.
From
a
point
above
two
little
brass
6-pounders
were
discharged
,
and
the
round-shot
came
skipping
down
the
empty
reach
,
spirting
glittering
jets
of
water
in
the
sunshine
.
In
front
of
the
mosque
a
shouting
lot
of
men
began
firing
in
volleys
that
whipped
athwart
the
current
of
the
river
;
an
irregular
,
rolling
fusillade
was
opened
on
the
boat
from
both
banks
,
and
Brown
's
men
replied
with
a
wild
,
rapid
fire
.
The
oars
had
been
got
in
.
'
The
turn
of
the
tide
at
high
water
comes
on
very
quickly
in
that
river
,
and
the
boat
in
mid-stream
,
nearly
hidden
in
smoke
,
began
to
drift
back
stern
foremost
.
Along
both
shores
the
smoke
thickened
also
,
lying
below
the
roofs
in
a
level
streak
as
you
may
see
a
long
cloud
cutting
the
slope
of
a
mountain
.
A
tumult
of
war-cries
,
the
vibrating
clang
of
gongs
,
the
deep
snoring
of
drums
,
yells
of
rage
,
crashes
of
volley-firing
,
made
an
awful
din
,
in
which
Brown
sat
confounded
but
steady
at
the
tiller
,
working
himself
into
a
fury
of
hate
and
rage
against
those
people
who
dared
to
defend
themselves
.
Two
of
his
men
had
been
wounded
,
and
he
saw
his
retreat
cut
off
below
the
town
by
some
boats
that
had
put
off
from
Tunku
Allang
's
stockade
.
There
were
six
of
them
,
full
of
men
.
While
he
was
thus
beset
he
perceived
the
entrance
of
the
narrow
creek
(
the
same
which
Jim
had
jumped
at
low
water
)
.
It
was
then
brim
full
.
Steering
the
long-boat
in
,
they
landed
,
and
,
to
make
a
long
story
short
,
they
established
themselves
on
a
little
knoll
about
900
yards
from
the
stockade
,
which
,
in
fact
,
they
commanded
from
that
position
.
The
slopes
of
the
knoll
were
bare
,
but
there
were
a
few
trees
on
the
summit
.
They
went
to
work
cutting
these
down
for
a
breastwork
,
and
were
fairly
intrenched
before
dark
;
meantime
the
Rajah
's
boats
remained
in
the
river
with
curious
neutrality
.
When
the
sun
set
the
glue
of
many
brushwood
blazes
lighted
on
the
river-front
,
and
between
the
double
line
of
houses
on
the
land
side
threw
into
black
relief
the
roofs
,
the
groups
of
slender
palms
,
the
heavy
clumps
of
fruit
trees
.
Brown
ordered
the
grass
round
his
position
to
be
fired
;
a
low
ring
of
thin
flames
under
the
slow
ascending
smoke
wriggled
rapidly
down
the
slopes
of
the
knoll
;
here
and
there
a
dry
bush
caught
with
a
tall
,
vicious
roar
.
The
conflagration
made
a
clear
zone
of
fire
for
the
rifles
of
the
small
party
,
and
expired
smouldering
on
the
edge
of
the
forests
and
along
the
muddy
bank
of
the
creek
.
A
strip
of
jungle
luxuriating
in
a
damp
hollow
between
the
knoll
and
the
Rajah
's
stockade
stopped
it
on
that
side
with
a
great
crackling
and
detonations
of
bursting
bamboo
stems
.
The
sky
was
sombre
,
velvety
,
and
swarming
with
stars
.
The
blackened
ground
smoked
quietly
with
low
creeping
wisps
,
till
a
little
breeze
came
on
and
blew
everything
away
.
Brown
expected
an
attack
to
be
delivered
as
soon
as
the
tide
had
flowed
enough
again
to
enable
the
war-boats
which
had
cut
off
his
retreat
to
enter
the
creek
.
At
any
rate
he
was
sure
there
would
be
an
attempt
to
carry
off
his
long-boat
,
which
lay
below
the
hill
,
a
dark
high
lump
on
the
feeble
sheen
of
a
wet
mudflat
.
But
no
move
of
any
sort
was
made
by
the
boats
in
the
river
.
Over
the
stockade
and
the
Rajah
's
buildings
Brown
saw
their
lights
on
the
water
.
They
seemed
to
be
anchored
across
the
stream
.
Other
lights
afloat
were
moving
in
the
reach
,
crossing
and
recrossing
from
side
to
side
.
There
were
also
lights
twinkling
motionless
upon
the
long
walls
of
houses
up
the
reach
,
as
far
as
the
bend
,
and
more
still
beyond
,
others
isolated
inland
.
The
loom
of
the
big
fires
disclosed
buildings
,
roofs
,
black
piles
as
far
as
he
could
see
.
It
was
an
immense
place
.
The
fourteen
desperate
invaders
lying
flat
behind
the
felled
trees
raised
their
chins
to
look
over
at
the
stir
of
that
town
that
seemed
to
extend
up-river
for
miles
and
swarm
with
thousands
of
angry
men
They
did
not
speak
to
each
other
.
Now
and
then
they
would
hear
a
loud
yell
,
or
a
single
shot
rang
out
,
fired
very
far
somewhere
.
But
round
their
position
everything
was
still
,
dark
,
silent
.
They
seemed
to
be
forgotten
,
as
if
the
excitement
keeping
awake
all
the
population
had
nothing
to
do
with
them
,
as
if
they
had
been
dead
already
.
'
'
All
the
events
of
that
night
have
a
great
importance
,
since
they
brought
about
a
situation
which
remained
unchanged
till
Jim
's
return
.
Jim
had
been
away
in
the
interior
for
more
than
a
week
,
and
it
was
Dain
Waris
who
had
directed
the
first
repulse
.
That
brave
and
intelligent
youth
(
"
who
knew
how
to
fight
after
the
manner
of
white
men
"
)
wished
to
settle
the
business
off-hand
,
but
his
people
were
too
much
for
him
.
He
had
not
Jim
's
racial
prestige
and
the
reputation
of
invincible
,
supernatural
power
.
He
was
not
the
visible
,
tangible
incarnation
of
unfailing
truth
and
of
unfailing
victory
.
Beloved
,
trusted
,
and
admired
as
he
was
,
he
was
still
one
of
them
,
while
Jim
was
one
of
us
.
Moreover
,
the
white
man
,
a
tower
of
strength
in
himself
,
was
invulnerable
,
while
Dain
Waris
could
be
killed
.
Those
unexpressed
thoughts
guided
the
opinions
of
the
chief
men
of
the
town
,
who
elected
to
assemble
in
Jim
's
fort
for
deliberation
upon
the
emergency
,
as
if
expecting
to
find
wisdom
and
courage
in
the
dwelling
of
the
absent
white
man
.
The
shooting
of
Brown
's
ruffians
was
so
far
good
,
or
lucky
,
that
there
had
been
half-a-dozen
casualties
amongst
the
defenders
.
The
wounded
were
lying
on
the
verandah
tended
by
their
women-folk
.
The
women
and
children
from
the
lower
part
of
the
town
had
been
sent
into
the
fort
at
the
first
alarm
.
There
Jewel
was
in
command
,
very
efficient
and
high-spirited
,
obeyed
by
Jim
's
"
own
people
,
"
who
,
quitting
in
a
body
their
little
settlement
under
the
stockade
,
had
gone
in
to
form
the
garrison
.
The
refugees
crowded
round
her
;
and
through
the
whole
affair
,
to
the
very
disastrous
last
,
she
showed
an
extraordinary
martial
ardour
.
It
was
to
her
that
Dain
Waris
had
gone
at
once
at
the
first
intelligence
of
danger
,
for
you
must
know
that
Jim
was
the
only
one
in
Patusan
who
possessed
a
store
of
gunpowder
.
Stein
,
with
whom
he
had
kept
up
intimate
relations
by
letters
,
had
obtained
from
the
Dutch
Government
a
special
authorisation
to
export
five
hundred
kegs
of
it
to
Patusan
.
The
powder-magazine
was
a
small
hut
of
rough
logs
covered
entirely
with
earth
,
and
in
Jim
's
absence
the
girl
had
the
key
.
In
the
council
,
held
at
eleven
o'clock
in
the
evening
in
Jim
's
dining-room
,
she
backed
up
Waris
's
advice
for
immediate
and
vigorous
action
.
I
am
told
that
she
stood
up
by
the
side
of
Jim
's
empty
chair
at
the
head
of
the
long
table
and
made
a
warlike
impassioned
speech
,
which
for
the
moment
extorted
murmurs
of
approbation
from
the
assembled
headmen
.
Old
Doramin
,
who
had
not
showed
himself
outside
his
own
gate
for
more
than
a
year
,
had
been
brought
across
with
great
difficulty
.
He
was
,
of
course
,
the
chief
man
there
.
The
temper
of
the
council
was
very
unforgiving
,
and
the
old
man
's
word
would
have
been
decisive
;
but
it
is
my
opinion
that
,
well
aware
of
his
son
's
fiery
courage
,
he
dared
not
pronounce
the
word
.
More
dilatory
counsels
prevailed
.
A
certain
Haji
Saman
pointed
out
at
great
length
that
"
these
tyrannical
and
ferocious
men
had
delivered
themselves
to
a
certain
death
in
any
case
.
