160 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



They brought advice, that the Queen of Ban* 

 tarn was killed, that the King was taken pri- 

 fonef, and that five thoufand Dragoons and 

 one thoufand five hundred HufTars were at that 

 time ready to kill all the inhabitants of Bantam 

 without diftin&ion, who would not acknow- 

 ledge the King whom they had appointed, 

 and who fhould refufe to look upon the 

 Dutch as their protectors. The prince of 

 Madura fupported the Dutch in this affair 

 with all his power. 



The ifland of Great Java is fituated under 

 the fixth degree of fouth latitude, between 

 Summatra, Banca, Borneo, Madura, Baly or 

 Little Java, and the country of Eendraught 

 (Union). It appears from hence that it muff be 

 very hot, and the heat would be intolerable if 

 the thick woods did not retain the moiflure 

 after the rains are over, and if all kinds of 

 animals were not refrefhed by the fhade. 



Batavia is the celebrated capital of the 

 Dutch in this ifle, who built it in the year 

 1610, in the place where the old town of 

 Jacatra formerly flood ; but as it lay on the 

 other fide of the ifle we did not get fight of it. 

 I am told there are fine houfes in it, and that 



it 



