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MALAY SKETCHES

wanderers walked straight into their arms and gave
themselves up without a struggle.
Another story says that, at the last moment
Kuala a
before leaving Lumpor, guide presented
himself and offered his services, which were
that he led the hither and thither
accepted ; party
through the jungle, and in the evening, when
thoroughly exhausted, took them into Pataling.
I never heard rightly what became of the rank
and file; they may have been given their liberty
and told to find their own way out of the State.
For the officers was reserved another fate.
Finding the principal defenders of Kuala Lumpor
had withdrawn, the place was occupied without
difficulty by those who had for so long invested it.
The leading Chinese were made very uncomfort-
but on them the of the
able, depended working
mines, and they were allowed to purchase their
lives.
I do not think this alternative was offered to
Van Hagen and Cavaliero. They were escorted
from Pataling to Kuala Lumpor, and, arrived there,
they were taken out and shot.
In excavating for the foundations of the houses
which now form the town of Kuala Lumpor, it was
usual to dig up a large number of skeletons, the
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