Book II. Travels in India. 



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will tell you hardly to be belicv'd, but that which is a certain truth which 

 is, that when any other King or Kaja has one of thefe Elephants of Ceylan 

 if they bring him among any other breed in any other place whatever fo foon 

 as the other Elephants behold the CeyUm Elephants, by an inftincV of ■ na- 

 ture, they do him reverence", laying their trunks upon the ground, and raifins 

 them up again. b 



The King of Acheti, with whom the Hollanders alfo broke their word had 

 more opportunity to be reveng'd upon them then the King of Candy. For he 

 deni'd them the transportation of Pepper out of his Country, without which 

 their trade was worth little. His Pepper being that which is molt coveted by 

 the Eaft. So that they were forc'd to make a compofition with him. The King 

 of lichens Embaifador coming to Batavia, was ftrangejy furpriz'd to fee wo- 

 men fitting at the Table } but much more, when after a health drank to the 

 Queen of Achen, the General of Batavia commanded his Wife to go and kifs 

 the Embaiiador. Nor was the King behind hand with the Dutch Embaijador 

 another way 5 whom the King beholding in a languifhing diftemper, ask'd him 

 whether he had never any familiarity with any of the Natives. Yes, replied 

 the Embaifador $ however I left, her to marry in my own Country. Upon that 

 the King commanded three of his Phyficians to cure him in fifteen days, upon; 

 the forfeiture of their lives. Thereupon they gave him a certain potion every 

 morning, and a little Pill at night } and at the end of nine days he took a great 

 Vomit. Every body thought he would have dy'd with the working of it * but 

 at length it brought up a ftopple of courfe hair, as big as a nut; after which 

 he prefently recover'd. At his departure the King gave him a Flint about the 

 bignefs of a Goofe Egg, with veins of Gold in it, like the veins of a man* 

 hand, as the Gold grows in that Country. 



CHAP. XXL 

 The Authors departure from Ceylan, and his arrival at Batavia. 



THE twenty-fifth of May we fet (ail from Tome Galle. The fecond, of 

 fune we pafs'd the Line. The fixth we faw the Ifland call'd Naz^tos^ 

 £he feventeemh we difcover'd the Coaft of Sumatra, the eighteenth the Iflan4 

 of Ingamina, and the nineteenth the Ifland of Fortune. The twentieth, we were 

 in ken of certain little Iflands, and the Coaft of Java ; among which Iflands 

 there are three call'd the Iflands of the Prince. The one and twentieth we dif- 

 cover'd Bantam, and the two and twentieth we anchor'd in the Road of Ba- 

 tavta. 



There are two Councils in Batavia, the Council of the Fort, where the Ge- 

 neral prefides, and where all the affairs of the Company are manag'd. The other 

 which is held in a Houfe in the City, and relates to the Civil Government, and 

 decides the petty differences among the Citizens.. 



All the kindnefs I had (hewn me here, was to be profecuted by the City 

 Council, for being fufpecled to have bought a parcel of Diamonds for Moun- 

 fieur Confiant, my very good Friend, and Prefident of the Dutch Fa&ory at 

 Comron % bur when they could make nothing of it, they ceas'd their ioi£ ** 

 fham'd of >vhat they had done. 



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