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with safety. The Dutch tried it once, and the first year had their Factory 
cut off. They then settled on Pullo Dingding, an Island at the Mouth of 
the river Perak, but about the year 1690 that Factory was also cut off, and 
I never heard that anybody else ever attempted to settle there since. 
There are several other places along that coast of Malaya, that produce 
great quantities of Tin, but Salangore and Parsalore are the most noted, though 
little frequented by Huropeans, because they RE too many of the Perak 
Qualities to be trusted with honest Men’s Lives and Money. Their Religion 
is also a sort of scoundrel Mahometism.’’ 
I have lived in Perak for several years, and have sought in vain 
among natives of the state for any traditional accounts of the 
attack upon the Dutch and the negotiations which followed. I 
have never succeeded in meeting a native who could remember 
having heard that such a thing had happened. Yet these 
people have plenty of legends going back to pre-Muhammadan 
days. This 1s an example of the small hold which, in the absence 
of written accounts, the events of modern times have upon the 
minds of men in comparison with the mythical stories of antiquity. 
The Jutch, who became in 1641 masters of Malacca, having 
successfully attacked the Portuguese garrison there, turned their 
attention shortly afterwards to the tin-trade of the State of Perak, 
then in a condition of vassalage under the Kingdom of Achin. In 
a manuscript collection of Dutch Treaties prepared in Batavia 
under the orders of Sir Sramrorp Rarrxies, while he was Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of Java, the following engagement is to be found. 
It is dated the 15th August, 1650, Cornenis van DER Lyn being 
then Governor-General :— 
“Contract with the Chiefs of Perak Dependent on Acheen stipulating that 
the exclusive Tin Trade granted to the Company by the Ratoo of Acheen will 
likewise embrace the State of Perak, that is to say, that the same will in 
future be restricted to the Dutch Company and the Inhabitants of Acheen. 
Yang de per Tuan, Sultan of Perak, further promises, in obedience to the 
order received from Acheen, to direct all foreigners now trading at Perak to 
depart without delay with an interdiction against returning hereafter. The 
Company to pay thesame duty as at Acheen for the Tin it shall export and 
the value of the Tin Coinage to remain as it is at present, namely, 1 Bidore 
for 4 Spanish Dollar and 1 bahr of 3 peculs for One hundred and twenty-five 
bidore or 317 Spanish Dollars.” 
The interdict upon trade as regards other foreigners is very cha- 
racteristic of the times. The object of each European nation in 
the Eastern seas was to secure exclusive advantages which should 
not be shared by any other flag and in this competition the Dutch 
