Peutèë is a subject named in *General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by [[Maurice Henri du Croo|M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
From Pang Nanggròë
On 24 September 1910 sergeant Slooten received orders to look for him in the Paja Tjitjém, the Bird Marsh. As related by H. C. Zentgraaff and quoted by du Croo, “de baas” marched that same day with his brigade through Peutèë and heard from an Acehnese woman that three of Pang Nanggròë’s men were under the meunasah of gampong Aloeë with two women. When Slooten arrived they had gone in the direction of Boekèt Hagoe; although it was night and pouring with rain, Slooten pressed on into the forest to gampong Aloeë Awé, where the people had also left after eating.
From Slooten
Ordered on 24 September to look for Pang Nanggròë in the Bird Marsh, “de baas” marched the same day with his brigade through Peutèë and heard from an Acehnese woman that three of Pang Nanggròë’s men were under the meunasah of gampong Aloeë. Though it was night and pouring with rain, Slooten pressed on into the forest to gampong Aloeë Awé. He gave his dead-tired brigade only a few hours’ rest and resumed the hunt before dawn on 25 September, holding the tracks fast into the marsh and following them on 26 September through mud and water sometimes up to the arms. At midday voices were heard; a marechaussée fell in the tangle of roots and the loud splash alarmed the camp; the brigade rushed forward and a fugitive already two hundred metres off was hit and fell — “en de gids zegt: Pang Nanggròë.”
From Lho’ Soekon
Twenty-two kilometres of marsh and forest from Lho’ Soekon lay the country of the three great Teungkoes. On 26 January 1905 the patrol of sergeant Vollaers was destroyed at Meurandéh Paja, east of Lho’ Soekon, sixteen of seventeen men being killed. On 26 September 1910 sergeant Slooten, having marched from Lho’ Soekon through Peutèë, killed Pang Nanggròë in the Paja Tjitjém; the body was brought back and buried behind the keudé, where it still lay in 1943, “within a covered wooden enclosure, a kandang. And immediately beside it, in such an enclosure too, rests the body of Pang Latèh, the energetic fellow-fighter of Pang Nanggròë.” On 22 October 1910 W. J. Mosselman marched out from Lho’ Soekon on the pursuit that ended three days later with the deaths of Tgk. Sjeh di Paja Bakong, Tgk. Mat Saleh and Tjoet Meutia.
See Also
- Pang Nanggròë
- Slooten
- Lho’ Soekon
- Paja Tjitjém
- H. N. A. Swart
- General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943)
- Atjeh
Source
Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), passim.