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" north-weft on the American Ude." After encountering many 

 difficulties, he anchored lafe in the Downs on September i ith- 

 3603. Sir James acquired great wealth and reputation by this 

 voyage, which he lived thirty years after to enjoy, as he well- 

 defer ved. 



We followed the advantages of this enterprize. The Dutch- 

 who had fettled themfelves in the illand, entertained the highelt 

 jealoufy of our riling commerce, and gave all poilible oppo- 

 fition ; they even once expelled us from Bantam^ where we had- 

 a fadory. We then turned our thoughts towards Acbeen, and 

 met there fome of the ifland chieftains in the year 1685, who 

 invited us to fettle on their lands \ this, gave rife to our efta- 



Eencoolen. blifliment ^iBencoolen, which became the fupreme facSlory. The 

 fort called fort Marlborough was founded ; we are now the prin- 

 cipal traders in the iiland, and export from thence annually 

 twelve hundred tons of pepper, the greateft part to Europe, the 

 reft to China. This fettlemcnt is unwholefome, the air full of 

 malignant vapors ; the mountains continually cloathed with thick 

 heavy clouds, which break out in lightning, thunder, rain, and 

 fhort-lived ftorms ; the fort is tolerably healthy during the fickly 

 feafon, and to that place the merchants fliould make their retreat. 

 In the year 1760, the French admiral D'EJiaign deftroyed 

 this fort, and all our other fettlements on the ifland, in order to 

 drive us from the lucrative pepper trade ; but they were foon 

 re-eftablifJied, and our poffeffions fecured to us in 1763 by the 

 treaty of Paris. 



Natai. On the coaft of the Battas country are two fettlements, one at 



Natal, and another on a fmall ifle in the noble bay of 'Tappanoly, 

 .9 which 



