"It may be that, being accustomed to war, I can suggest some means of so strengthening the defences that we may hold them against the enemy." The rajah, having heard many tales of the fighting powers of the whites, said: "I will go with you.

I would defend the place if I could for, if Johore were lost, I should be but a fugitive.

All within it would be killed, and I should have to beg an asylum from those over whom I was once master." Calling a party of his men to follow him, the rajah accompanied Harry to the edge of the town.

It was already surrounded by a palisade; but this was of no great strength, and its circumference was fully a mile and a half.
"Tell the rajah that we could make a first defence, here, but his fighting men are not numerous enough to hold so large a circuit against four times their number.

I should suggest that the whole population should be set to work to build another palisade, much nearer to the palace.