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** Batavia^ a boat belonging to the Medway, which attended on 

 " fhore every night, was three times fucceffively manned,, not 

 " one having furvived that fervice. They were all taken ill in 

 « the night, when on fhore> or when returning on board, fo 

 " that the officers were at length obliged to employ none but 

 *' the natives of the country on that bufinefs." 



On the arrival of the Europeans in this country, a town then Jacatra. 

 called Calappa^ and about the year 1607 changed to that of 

 Jacatra, flood on the fite of Batavia. The regulus of the 

 place had made an alliance with the EngliJIj, which gave great 

 umbrage to the Dutch, who had likewife their fettlements here, 

 under the protedlion of a fort or two ; the rivals came to adlion ; 

 for a time we had the fuperiority, and in the year 1619, after a 

 fuccefsful battle at fea, compelled the Dutch commodore Koen, to 

 retreat to Amboina ; but he foon returned in fuch force, as to 

 oblige the Engli/h, by capitulation, totally to evacuate the 

 place. This was not a national war, but carried on entirely be- 

 tween the two companies. 



Koen utterly deftroyed the town of Jacatra, and built Founded in 

 in its place the prefent Batavia, on a far more extenfive 

 fcale. The anniverfary is obferved in honor of the founder to 

 this day. The ftreets are regular, each has its canal, which in the 

 dry feafon emit a moft horrid flench, from the filth flung into 

 them, and the clofenefs of the trees planted on the banks pre- 

 vent the due circulation. No place could poflibly be feledted 

 more unwholefome ; fo that what Furchas relates of Bantam, 

 may well be applied to this city, " that it is not a place to re- Sickly 



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