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2 no HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
together with six thousand round shot and twenty-six barrels
of gunpowder.
The town of Sambas was occupied without further opposition,
but little booty was obtained, though the 'Coromandel' and the
entire fleet fell into the hands of the victors. Though the loss
in action was not considerable, the climate made dreadful havoc.
A large number of the 14th Regiment died from fever, and the
ships of war also suffered to a similar extent. The 'Malabar'
and 'Aurora' lost many men, but the 'Teignmouth,' which re-
mained after the others had left for Java, was the greatest sufferer.
Out of a crew of seventy-five Europeans she lost two-thirds, the
natives on board suffering in an equal proportion, and, at one
time, she had only one officer and eight or ten men fit for duty.
So fatal were the effects of this Expedition on the officers of
the Bombay Marine, owing chiefly to the long-continued exposiu'e
on boat duty during the blockade of the coast and in the opera-
tions up the Sambas river, that, out of twenty-two officers in the
three Company's ships, within a few years of their return to
Bombay, only two remained in the Si^rvice, the rest having died
or invalided. As in all wars in tropical climates, the exposure
to the torrid heat of the noon-day sun, followed by the malaria
of the midnight dews, and the pestilential exhalations of the
swamps, laid the seeds of disease which, if not immediately fol-
lowed by fatal consequences to the sufferer, in many instances
embittered the remaining years of liis life. Happily in these
days. Sanitary Science and the thoughtful care bestowed on the
comfort and health of our soldiers and sailors, have relieved
militar}^ operations undertaken even in the most unhealth}'-
climates, of a large percentage of loss.
Not long after the return of the naval and military forces to
Java, another Expedition was directed against Rajah Boni of
Macassar, in Celebes, who was constantly guilty of acts of hos-
tility towards the British in these islands. In April, 1814, a
combined military and naval force was fitted out at Java, under
Major-General (afterwards Sir Miles) Nightingall. in which were
enjployed the Company's ships 'Malabar,' ' Teignnjouth,' 'Au-
rora,' and some gunboats, under the senior officer. Captain Deane
of the 'Malabar.' The Expedition, having arrived at Macassar,
prepared, on the morning of the 7th of June, to attack the Rajah,
as that chieftain declined to make the reparation demanded of
him, and refused to surrender the "somdang," or regalia, of Goa,*
Avhich he had forcibly seized. The ships having battered the
defences of the town, at daybreak all the barriers were carried
* The Rajah of Goa was formerly the most powerful chief in Celebes, but the
Rajah of Boni, having become the principal all.y of the Dutch, was by them raised
to the supremacy of the island. In tlie year 1780, a force of Buggis or Buggese,
as the inhabitants of Celebes are called, in the employment of the Rajah of Goa,
showed great courage in an attack on the Dutch fort of Rotterdam at Macassar,
but they were beaten olf with considerable loss.