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" pardoned him, yet both EngliJJj, Hollanders^ and Portiigals, 

 " fearing if the Englijhman fliou'd go unpnniflicd, left the 

 *• iflanders flioiild revenge themfelves upon fome of them, be- 

 " fought the king to put him to death ; which with much ado 

 " being confented to, the king, unwilhng to put him to a hn- 

 ♦* gering death, and defirous to fliew the effect of his poifon, 

 " refolved to flioot the criminal himfelf ; whereupon he took a 

 <' long trunk, and fhot him exactly into the great toe of the right 

 " foot, the place particularly aimed at: two chirurgeons,.onean. 

 " EngliJJjman and the otlier a Hollander^ provided on purpofe, 

 " immediately cut off the member ; but for all that the poifon 

 " had difperfed itfelf fo fpeedily, that the Englijljman died at 

 " the fame time. 



'• All the kings and princes of the eail: are very diligent in 

 '* their enquiry after ftrong poifons ; and I remember that the 

 " chief of the Dutch fa<5tory and I tried feveral poifoned arrows, 

 " with which the king oi Acheen had prcfented him, by flioot- 

 <' ing at fquirrels, who fell down dead as foon as ever they were 

 " touched." 



Boutan, a fmall ifle near the fouth-eafl of Celebes, is inde- Boutan. 

 pendent, and has its fultan, who mimics all the ftate of a greater 

 monarch. Our countryman, yix. Tiavid Middleton^, vifited this 

 ifland in 1609, and there paffed a ftrong intercourfe of civilities 

 between him and the reigning prince. Middleton failed from 

 England with a commercial view ; nor would he have been dif- 

 appointed, had not the king's rich magazine of goods been juft 

 burnt by his enemies. The natives are like the Mindanayans in 



* Purchas, i. 238. 



N 2 fliape, 



