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Bastion “Victoria” or “St. Domingo” were started on 23rd 
May, 1641. On 13th August, the Sjahbander JAN JANSZ MENIE 
returned from Maccam Thoheet with letters from the Orang 
Caia Laksamana to the Governor, containing the news that 
the Achinese accepted peace and promised to stop all enmity 
and robbery. From the letter of the Laksamana to the Gov- 
ernor it appears that Acheen was ruled at that time by a 
Queen.(1) The Governor of Malacca then requested the said 
Laksamana to send him ten boat-loads of timber for the repairs 
of the bridge of Malacca, some 200 Malay carpenters and oars 
and paddles. 
In a letter to their Honours at Batavia forwarded per the 
Amboina the Laksamana of Johor complained very much 
of the want of fulfilment of the promises made to him and to 
his King by former Commanders before the conquest of 
Malacca, and according to an agreement, made before the 
siege of Malacca, he requested the Company to return to the 
King of Johor all the big and small guns, which the Portuguese 
had taken from him. 
On the 14th of August the Neptunus arrived from Coro- 
mandel with a cargo of purchased goods, amounting to rupees 
265,975) VIZ. :— 
250 bales of different calicos from Padliacatte 
at ae ixs.60,026 
482 bales of calicos, sugar, indigo, apes 
thread, &c., from Mazulipatam, at . 179,947 
732 bales of different goods, at a Rs.265,975 
The storeship the Duyf with 28 hands, despatched from 
Acheen by the Commissioner JUSTUS SCHOUTEN, arrived at 
Palliacatte in avery damaged condition, with broken main and 
fore-mast and lost mizen-mast, for which reason, Heer ARENT 
GARDENYS, Governor of Palliacatte, ordered it to Bengal to 
(1) Sekander Muda, the King in whose time Achin attained its greatest 
prosperity, and who began to reign in 1606, had just died. He was to have 
aided the Dutch in their siege of Malacca, but declined, owing to their alliance 
with his enemy—Johor. Achin was ruled for the next sixty years by Queens, 
