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•' in number ; if they do what is wrong, whatever it may be, I shall 

 ' see it, and will give orders for their being massacred ;' literally, 

 ' I will order men to amok ( or, as it is vulgarly termed, rim amok ) 

 'among them;' notwithstanding this, the Bendahara and the Te- 

 menggongs remained dissatisfied in their hearts, for they were 

 wise men. 



" After this, the Portuguese, during the night, conveyed into 

 their store-house cannon, and they landed small arms packed in. 

 chests, saying the contents were cloths ; and in this manner did 

 the Portuguese deceive and cheat the people of Malacca. 



" What the Portuguese next did, the people of Malacca were 

 ignorant of ; but it was not long before the store house was 

 completed ; and when all their arms were in order, then it was 

 that at midnight, at a time when the people of Malacca were 

 asleep, that the Portuguese began to fire oif their guns from 

 the Port of Malacca. 



"They soon destroyed all the houses of the people of Malae- 

 ca, and their J\ r ihona Port ; and it was during the night when 

 the Portuguese first attacked the people of Malacca, that Eaja 

 Ahmed Shah with his people, fled in all directions, for none 

 could remain to oppose the Portuguese. 



" Thus did the Portuguese gain possession of Malacca ; whilst 

 Sultan Ahmed SnAH fled to Moar, and from thence, in a short time, 

 to Johor, and afterwards to Bintan, to establish another country ; 

 such is the account of the Portuguese seizure .of the kingdom of 

 Malacca, from the hands of the Sultan Ahmed Shah. 



" It is related, that the Portuguese remained in quiet posses- 

 sion of the country of Malacca for three years ; after which they 

 sent letters to their great country, which is called Goa, giving an 

 account that the kingdom of Malacca was conquered. As soon as 

 this intelligence arrived, the Raja of the Portuguese was exceed- 

 ingly happy, and in about two months after he answered the let- 

 ters, and ordered the Portuguese to build the Port at Malacca of: 

 iron-stone, and that the form of the Pert should be like that at 

 Goa ; uich w r as the occasion of the Port of Malacca resembling that 

 of Goa, 



