CONQUEST OF SOUTH BALI

The people returned to their houses. All night long, hurried wholesale cremations were held while the Dutch buried their dead. The next morning a young pungawa came to see the commander. He said he had been away the day before and had missed being killed with the rest, so he asked to be shot by the soldiers. When he was refused, he drew his kris and stabbed himself before he could be prevented. The Balinese then gave up their arms.

A few days later Gush Ngurah Agung, the Radja of Tabanan, came with his son to speak to the Resident. He had changed his gold umbrella for a green one in sign of submission. He wanted to surrender on condition that he be allowed to retain his title and have the same rights as the Radja of Gianyar and Karangasem; Resident Liefrink replied coldly that he must be deported from Bali until an answer to his request came from the Government. He would be held in the palace for the night and on the next day would embark for Lombok.

Next morning both the Radja and his son were found dead; the son was poisoned, supposedly by an overdose of opium, and the old Radja had cut his throat with a blunt sirih knife. Thus the state of Tabanan fell to the Dutch.

Two years later the Dewa Agung of Klungkung remained the only independent Radja, but he was " insolent," and the stories of Lombok, Den Pasar, and Pemetjutan were repeated; an armed force was sent to punish him and another great puputan took place in the main avenue of Klungkung, the highest Radja in Bali was killed, with his whole family.

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