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order to fupply his wants- The rapacious governor feized on 

 the monarch and all his treafure, tinder pretence that he intended 

 theconqueft of the ifland. The fultan remonftrated in vain, he 

 endured a long captivity ; his fabjedts, enraged at the treatment 

 their prince had met with, made horrible ravages on the coafts of 

 Luconia. The governor did not dare to complain, as he knew his 

 court would not approve his condu6t. He ftipulated with the 

 prince that he would reftore him to liberty, provided he would 

 confent to eftablifli in his dominions a miffion of Jefuits. He 

 refufed to comply ; the Jefuits, determined on revenge and con- 

 queft, obtained an armament, and taking the Soolo monarch, 

 failed for Sambouange, and from thence to Soolo, where thev 

 landed, and laid fiege to the only fort on the ifland. The warriors 

 of SogIo furprifed them, and drove them with difgrace to their 

 iliips. At Sambouange he found means to efcape on board an 

 ILngliJJj veffel, which conveyed him to Soolo ; his fubje6ts crowded 

 to him, and he remounted his throne, to the great joy of his 

 people ; he ceded a fmall ifland to the Englijlj, and declared his 

 ports open to all piratical adventurers, to encourage them to re- 

 venge his caufe on the treacherous Spaniards. Mr. Forreji vi- 

 fited this ifland, and found tliere an Englijh facftor; it was then 

 governed by Ifrael, fon of the captive fultan, who had received 

 his education at Manilla. 



Mr. D alry/nple \iCited thefe iflands, and left us fome account 

 of their natural hiftory : they are particularly rich in pearls; the Pearls. 

 banks on which the different fliells are found containing thofe 

 gems are of great extent ; the pearl is not confined to one fpecies 

 of fhell, Mr. Dairy mple defcribes feveral, but as he does not do it 



M 2 fcientifically. 



