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MARCH 1, 1900 (From Mr Walker’s diary) INGSONG, the man who was killed while defending the office, at Mengkabong, leaves a wife and 7 children. 22nd Dec. I completed the purchase of the village and coconut plantation at Deasoka, situated at the Southern extremity of the flat land on which the new town of Jesselton is to be built. The people will remove to Api Api. 28th Dec. I went to Lock Madas, where Pengeran Kahar and 152 (one hundred and fifty-two) of his best men (with their women and children) are staying, and tried to get them to go and arrest some of the Bajows who took part in the looting of the shops at Menggatal and the attack on the Office at Mengkabong. I arrested one man Kadier on a charge of harbouring an offender named Daud. I also brought away all the boats, to the number of 33, and threatened to burn them if they did not send a party of men up the Menggatal river to attempt the arrest of some of the robbers, that were ....