190 THE ROCK OF ZOCIIELET. [1696. 



what Rice he had sav'd from the Fire was his own, and that 

 belonging to the Company had been for some time exhausted. 

 For our parts we could neither buy that, nor any thing else, 

 having no Money, the Governor having taken care to rob us 

 of it. 



As I had left some Memoirs at Rodrigo, I likewise con- 

 ceal'd some in a Hole of our Eock, (which I for a double 

 Reason call the Rock of Zochdct} 1 Kings i. 9j to which I 

 added, an Abridgment of the History of our long and cruel 

 Confinement in this melancholy and barren Place. I did 

 not forget to observe in this short Relation, that a fatal 

 piece of unknown Gum for a long while despis'd, had been 

 the cause of our Tyrannical Persecution, and the deplorable 

 Death of one of our dear Companions. So true it is what 

 St. Paul says; tliat Covetousness is the root of all Evil^ and 

 that .those who have a mind to become Rich, fall into 

 diabolical SnaVes, and many pernicious Desires, which at 

 lengtlr precipitate them into the Abyss of Perdition. 



pouD/k, w;eight (.equal to about l,y. 6^/. per cwt.) ; but when the harvest 

 fails they sonietimes pay five rix-dollars more ; or when tlie wants are 

 very large, ae in the year 1773, when the scarcity of this grain at Batavia, 

 occasionsd by at certain occurrence respecting the first administrator in 

 the graiu-magazine, was very great ; or when several succeeding harvests 

 have failed, orders are then given to the residents to buy the rice 

 imme'^iately from the natives, and the coyang then stands thcni in fifty 

 rix-dollars." ' (Stavorinus, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 139.) 



The administrators of the grain-magazines at the stations of the East 

 India (Company were allowed particular emoluments, and were to 

 content themselves with respect to rice with one hundred pounds 

 allowed upon each last, by resolution of 16th October 1744. (Vide 

 Stavorinu'S," ^.-?., vol. iii, Appendix, p. 486.) 



^ " And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of 

 Zohelcth* which is by En-rogel." (1 Kings, i, 9.) 



2 "For the love of money is the root of all evil; which while some 

 coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves 

 through with many sorrows." (1 Tim. vi, 10.) 



* I.e., by the Stone of the Serpent. 



