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Zeehaen, and a second (wherein were thirteen stout men) 

 caine up not half a cast from our ship, who called to 

 each other several times. We showed them (as before) 

 white linen, &c., yet they remained still. The master 

 of the Zeehaen sent his quartermaster with his boat 

 and six sailors back to the ship, to direct the mate, 

 in case these people should come alongside, not to allow too 

 many on board, but to be prudent, and well on his guard. 

 Just as the Zeehaen's boat put off, the natives in the near- 

 est prow to us called out and signalled with their paddles 

 to those who were behind the Zeehaen, but what their 

 m.eaning was we could not understand. Just as the Zee- 

 haen's boat pushed off again, that one lying between the two 

 ships began to pull furiously towards it, and when about 

 half-way from us struck the Zeehaen's boat furiously with 

 their stems, making it lurch greatly at the same time; where- 

 upon the foremost man in this villainous prow thrust the 

 quartermaster, Cornells Joppen, several times fiercely in the 

 neck with a long, blunt pike, so that he fell overboard. Where- 

 upon the others of them attacked the boat's crew with short, 

 thick pieces of wood (which we at first took to be blunt parangs) 

 [a kind of choppiug-knife used by the Malays for cutting 

 wood, &c.] and with their paddles, and overcame ihe boat, in 

 which fray three of the Zeehaen's people were killed and a 

 fourth mortally wounded through hard blows. The quarter- 

 master and two sailors swam towards our ship, and we sent 

 our shallop to them and picked them up alive. After this 

 outrageous and detestable affair the murderers let the boat 

 drift. They had one of the dead dragged into their prow, and 

 another drowned. We, and those on the Zeehaen, seeing 

 this, shot briskly with muskets and cannon, but, however, 

 probably did not hit any, as both returned to shore out of 

 shot. We fired many shots from our fore-upper-deck and 

 bow guns near and amongst their boats, but did not strike. 

 Our master, Ide Tercxsen Holman, rowed with our shallop, 

 well manned and armed, to bring back the Zeehaen's 

 boat (which, luckily, these cursed men had let drift), and 

 presently returned on board with it, finding in it one of the 

 dead and one mortally wounded. We weighed anchor and 

 got under sail, as w-e judged we could not establish any friend- 

 ship with this people, nor could get water or refreshments. 

 Our anchors weighed, and being under sail, we saw twenty- 

 two prows alongshore, whereof eleven, swarming with men, 

 came off to us. We kept quiet until some of the first were within 

 shot, when with our pieces we fired one or two shots from the 

 gunners' room, but without effect. The Zeehaen fired too, 

 and hit, in the largest prow, one who stood with a white flag 

 in his hand, so that he fell down. We also heard the grape- 



