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A VOYAGE TO 



t;8o. By means of my money, and pointing at different objects 



in fight, I had no difficulty in making a man, who feemed 

 to be the principal perfon of the company, comprehend the 

 main bufinefs of our errand ; and I as readily underftood 

 from him, that the Chief, or Captain, was abfent, but 

 would foon return ; and that, without his confent, no pur- 

 chafes of any kind could be made. We availed ourfelves 

 of the opportunity which this circumflance afforded us, to 

 walk about the town ; and did not forget to fearch, though 

 in vain, for the remains of a fort, which had been built 

 by our countrymen near the fpot we were now upon, in 

 1702 *. 



On returning to the Captain's houfe, we were forry to 

 find that he was not yet arrived; and the more fo, as the 

 time was almoft elapfed which Captain Gore had fixed for 

 our return to the boat. The natives were defirous we 

 mould lengthen our flay ; they even propofed our palling 

 the night there, and offered to accommodate us in the bed 

 manner in their power. I had obfcrved, when we were in 

 the houfe before, and now remarked it the more, that the 

 man I have mentioned above, frequently retired into one 

 of the end rooms, and (laid there fome little time, be- 

 fore he anfwered the queflions that were put to him ; which 

 led me to fufpeet that the Captain was all the time there, 



* The Englifli fettled here in the year 1702, when the factory of Chufan, on the 

 coaft of China, was broken up, and brought with them fome Macaflar foldiers, who 

 were hired to aflift in building a fort; but the prefident not fulfilling his engagement 

 with them, they watched an opportunity, and one night murdered all the Englifh in 

 the fort. Thofe without the fort, hearing a noife, took the alarm, and ran to their 

 boats, very narrowly cfcaping with their lives, but not without much fatigue, hunger, 

 and third, to the Johore dominions, where they were treated with great humanity. 

 Some of thefe afterward went to form a fettlement at Benjar-Maflean, on the ifland of 

 Borneo. Eajl India Direflory, p. 86. 



though, 



