I remember this in my history lessons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._W._Birch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._W._Birch
Birch was killed on 2 November 1875 by followers of a local Malay chief, Maharaja Lela, including Sepuntum, who speared him to death while he was in the bath-house of his boat, SS Dragon, moored on the Perak river-bank below the Maharaja Lela's house, in Pasir Salak, near today's Teluk Intan (Teluk Anson)