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nge rentap became notorious after the killing of alan lee at fort skrang simanggang on april 26 1853 lee was one of james brooke s half dozen young english relatives who were sent to the rural outback as administrators in the early 1850s alan lee and four others william brereton catechist teachers henry steel and charles fox and charles johnson charles brooke were among the first to arrive ultimately all except charles were killed by brooke s enemies rentap was unhappy with the establishment of the fort skrang which was a hindrance to his people s movement over menoa territory as they could not shoot down to the sea and carry out raids as they had done in the past in 1852 another fort was established at lingga and alan lee was put in charge of the station a strategic outpost to protect the river from marauding saribas sea dayaks in the spring of 1853 lee was asked bring his pro brooke balau soldiers up to fort skrang as rentap was planning an attack in the battle at skrang rentap lured lee s vessel manned by a few malays into a trap where he was overpowered by layang the son in law of the old chief and beheaded the slaying of alan lee in april 26 1853 was to have a profound effect on charles who swore revenge to commemorate the killing of lee libau whose praise name was rentap composed a set of verses to go ballad rentap tanah rentap menoa tuan lee ke mati enda berega tuan brereton tau masok ka kain enda tanjong ka bala raja rita layang tampak terang mandang ka airupa abang aing badu agi ka pending bala undup abis tepelut leka mata balau nadai agi kerangan sebelak kerapa earth tremor land tremor tuan lee is easily killed tuan brereton is reduced to wearing a dress no longer dares to lead the rajah s forces news of layang s exploits flashes to europe abang aing is no longer the ears of the rajah undup dayaks can now open their eyes in amazement the balau warriors voice can no longer heard a year after the killing of lee charles joined the sungei lang expedition to hunt down rentap who had fled to upper skrang in betong district in august 1854 tuan muda charles joined the rajah his uncle in the battle of sungei lang together with led 7 000 balau warriors from batang lupar their mission was to capture rentap s stockade on a steep hill surrounded by high stakes sandra pybus in white rajah a dynastic intrigue 1996 said itching to get after the troublesome rentap charlie joined an expedition led by his brother brooke brooke against rentap s fortified headquarters at sungei lang attached to the mainly malay force were spenser st john charles grant and arthur crookshank charles uncle and brereton of skrang everything went wrong despite being was wounded rentap with 50 to 60 bodyguards who used their shields to protect him escaped and built his fortress at bukit sadok mid way during the expedition rajah james fell ill and soon after brereton contracted cholera and died on november 13 2001 i decided to try what no journalist western or local had so far done i was going to trek up the jungle part to seek out rentap s renowned stockade at the peak of the 3 000ft high bukit sadok after a night at the longhouse of a friend i wrote i rose at 5 a m on a chilly day the mist was dense and the wind began to howl the sun rose as we entered the dewy forests while the clouds swept past us as kanyan and linggi both pint sized descendants of rentap led the way ribut a gust of wind linggi whispered indicating that deities who protected this holy mountain been awakened i noticed that thick undergrowth camouflaged the 150 year old track which was used by charles brooke and his army to capture sadok in october 1861 rentap s stockade lay high up in the steep hills about four hours away as we continued upwards towards the skyline kanyan jokingly gave me some friendly advice try not to make too much noise lest we upset the sprits after an hour we reached bukit sanggau the first of four hills we had to overcome on reaching bukit tugong we were now on now on sacred ground linggi reminded me to observe the adat law not wanting to upset the jungle spirits i customarily placed a twig on a pile of branches and meekly doing as i was told charles brooke in ten years in sarawak wrote it was now fiery hot one of our europeans was completely exhausted he had only lately arrived from england and was not yet inured to our broiling climate on a good road in the old country he would doubtless have passed us but now was so thoroughly ikak exhausted as to be obliged to be carried on the back of a dyak he was a man over six feet in height and heavy in proportion the dyak who carried him up hill after hill as if he was an infant was only five feet two inches without shoes at 9 30 a m kanyan linggi and i finally reached the outer ring of rentap s fortress leading to the summit of bukit sadok on both sides of the site was a steep declivity of at least 1 000 feet before we reached the summit at i had a strange sensation that we were being watched but there was also a sense of exhilaration having made it to the top was this how charles felt when he conquered the mountain which led to the defeat of grandfather aki rentap first of the great iban chiefs standing at the site of aki rentap s stockade i was exhilarated as what lay before me was the vast iban hinterland the skrang saribas plains and beyond the south china sea at last i had fulfilled a promise to scaled mythical mother of all mountains sarawak s bastion of pride rentap 2 rentap s supernatural birth libau anak nuing better known as rentap was born in the batang kanyau district of west kalimantan bordering the sarawak border at lubuk antu in the late 1790s according to legend a week before his birth rentap s mother imbong heard the cries of her son in her womb as the story goes rentap after he was born the infant was placed in a meligai special apartment in the attic of the longhouse imbong placed piring offerings under the suspended baby cot to ensure that her child would be protected from evil soon after this a python representing the snake deity kelieng was found wound around the cot the iban believe if a snake appears it is actually the orang panggau spirit heroes taking the form of a reptile cobras pythons and hamadryads king cobras and coral snakes are mostly associated with the orang panggau two nights after this infant suddenly disappeared and imbong had another dream in which kumang told her not to worry because her son had been taken to the heavenly home of panggau iibau in order to appease the spirits it was customary to hold a gawai festival as certain rituals and taboos had to be strictly observed after this ths wife of kelieng kumang spoke to imbong and said you will have a son called rentap earth tremor for the world will tremble when they hear his name libau would be blessed with the powers of kebal which made him invulnerable to weapons sword spear or bullet in 1815 rentap who was a teenager joined dana s expedition of 100 fast moving bangkong war boats who raided pontianak where the skrang youth gained notoriety in an encounter with a ship load of malays rentap killed the nephew of the sultan of pontianak who carried a keris whose handle was forged from gold from that incident he earned the first ensumbar libau panggau dara meaning a young bujang berani hero the sarawak museum journal smj special monograph no 7 1994 167 states at this time the orang kaya pemancha s dana bayang from saribas leading warrior libau rentap and his fighting men from skrang killed a boatful of pontianak malays and gained a gold handled kris when james brooke was officially installed as rajah of kuching on september 18 1842 he found opposition to his leadership particularly the influential brunei arab malay subservient to brunei viceroy to sarawak pengiran mahkota aligned to the infamous sea dayak head hunters just before brooke s arrival the karibas skrangf sea dayaks had raided bung bratak in upper sarawak and killed thousands in may 1843 james brooke sought the assistance of captain henry keppel to crush the saribas and skrang iban brooke wrote this is to inform our friend that there are certain great pirates of the people of sarebus and sakarran in our neighborhood seizing goods and murdering people on the high seas they have more than three hundred war prahus and extend their ravages even to banjarmasin dutch borneo they are not subject to the government of bruni borneo they take much plunder from vessels trading between singapore and the good people of the country in the first expedition in 1843 keppel s forces defeated the saribas in the villages of the padeh paku and rimbas tributaries a year later august 7 1844 keppel launched a second dido expedition against sharif sahap of patusan together with keppel was 15 year old charles johnson brooke favourite nephew together with the h e i c steamer phlegethon and the jolly batchelor keppel captured patusan who were allies of rentap the skrang warlord who commanded about 10 000 fighting men and warriors during the capture of patusan s five forts and 64 brass guns keppel s senior officer captain john ellis became the first european to be killed right before the eyes of charles keppel in his book the expedition of borneo in the hms dido said in this sharp and short affair we had only one man killed poor john ellis a fine young man and captain of the main top in the dido he was cut in two by a cannon shot while in the act of ramming home a cartridge in the bow gun of the jolly batchelor standing close to poor ellis at the fatal moment was a fine promising young middy charles johnson brooke nephew of mr brooke s who fortunately escaped unhurt a week later on august 14 another officer lieutenant charles frederick wade was killed at undup when he was shot captain keppel in describing the tragic incident said they had pushed ahead on foot when they encountered several boats with the piratical dayak and malay rebels instead of waiting for the main force to arrive wade dashed forward keppel added but my rash though gallant friend deemed otherwise and without the notice of caution of my upheld hand dashed in advance discharging his gun and calling upon our men to follow both the men crossed a 60 yard stretch of open land before reaching the foot of a steep ascent leading to the enemy s longhouse it was here that wade was struck by two bullets and killed instantaneously as he fell at keppel s feet three days later keppel s forces proceeded up the skrang river where the british suffered one of their biggest losses a forward party led by datu patinggi ali accompanied by an englishman george steward was sent in front to watch out for the enemy while waiting for main party of 30 brooke native vessels to arrive keppel had instructed patinggi ali to advance cautiously with his light division and to fall back upon the first appearance of rentap s warriors suddenly as if the deities were with rentap a most fearful thunderstorm struck and keppel noticed that it was accompanied by the most vivid flashes of lightning i ever witnessed caught by a strong down current ali s burntboats had entered a narrow pass when rentap s men launched huge bamboo rafts across the river cutting off their retreat with rentap at the helm his men threw spears and stones causing the ali s boats six large six large war bangkongs with 100 warriors three on each side then bore down on the small sinking flotilla in the ensuing battle patinggi ali together with steward were killed and decapitated a total of 31 men were killed and 56 injured in this tragedy which was rentap s greatest victory describing the scene when he arrived just after datu patinggi ali s group was attacked keppel said about twenty boats were jammed together forming one confused mass some bottom up the bows and sterns of others only visible mixed up pell mell with huge rafts and amongst which was nearly all our advance division headless trunks as well as heads without bodies were lying about in all directions parties were engaged hand to hand spearing and krissing each other others were striving to swim for their lives entangled in the common melee was our advanced boats while on both bands thousands of dyaks were rushing down to join in the slaughter hurling their spears and stones on the boats below keppel 1948 ii 111 in another foray keppel who was leading a charge of eight soldiers lost his right hand man lt wade who was killed by two rifle shots and fell dead at his feet lt wade was given a solemn and ceremonial burial and a heavy price to pay for the four dead europeans in one expedition alone rentap 3 losing the spiritual war on june 2 1857 a day before his 27th birthday tuan muda charles brooke and his commander abang aing advanced on rentap s fort at bukit sadok leading the way was brooke s chief guide sandom a sworn enemy of rentap who violated his brother by dragging him down a hill and then had his heart torn out the entourage of 4000 warriors camped at lintang batang at the spot when alan lee was killed on april 29 1853 on june 6 they built a temporary fort stockade and that evening at 4 p m held a baum council of war on a rocky sandbank a day later they were at the foot of the hill that led to sadok while rentap s gongs were continuously beating warning his people to prepare themselves for war apart from sandom charles had an experienced iban orang kaya gasing as one of his advisors on the other hand rentap who had the recuperated from his injuries sustained at sungei langit in 1854 had the services of saribas chief dana bayang s sons saji nanan and luyoh who built their longhouses around the rentap s fortress the dana brothers brought a special cannon nicknamed bujang timpang berang which was given to them by sharif mashor the governor of sarikei at 2 p m on june 7 soon after brooke s men commenced they reached the last 100 yards from the sadok kubu fort charles continued in ascending this part not more than twenty men were with me my best fort man was wounded by a spear and to assist him many of the others left me and now i must give credit to the lingga people for they were close at hand i was within about five yards of the enemy who were pitching spears from behind some wood on the brow of the hill while we were underneath and the spears went flying over my head and struck some of our party in the rear here i stood propped up against a tree and poured thirty rounds from my smooth bore as fast as i could load directing it into a place where i saw a movement among the trees after this i tried to ascend but the linggas collared me and one clung so firmly to my sword sheath that he was nearly pulling me backwards here we sat on the side of the hill at an angle of about 80 degrees the whole night a few cross sticks were placed for me to sit on one man held a shield at my back the following day brooke s men killed unsi rentap s manok sabong chief fighting cock after eight days of daily downpour brooke s army was beginning to suffe...