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very rich, and gave orders to dress up a scaffold or funeral pile 

 in the market-place or bazaar of Malacca, splendidly adorned 

 with rich silks and cloth of gold, the middle of the pile being 

 composed of a vast heap of aromatic wood of high price. 

 The entire street from his dwelling to the pile was strewed 

 with sweet-scented herbs and flowers, and adorned with rich 

 hangings, corresponding to the magnificence of the pile. 

 Having collected all his friends, and clad himself and family 

 in splendid attire, he went in solemn procession to the bazaar, 

 where he mounted the scaffold and made a long harangue, in 

 which he protested his innocence, and declared that he had 

 always served the Portuguese with the utmost zeal and fidelity. 

 Having ordered the pile to be fired, and seeing the whole in 

 flames, he declared that he would now mount to heaven in 

 that flame and smoke, and immediately cast himself into the 

 flaming pile, to the great admiration of all the beholders. 



At this time the king of Campar had gone home, intend- 

 ing to return to assume his office of Bendara, but was hindered 

 by Mahmud and the king of Bintang, who fitted out a fleet 

 of 70 sail with 2,500 men under the command of the king 

 of Lingga, and besieged Campar, in the harbour of: which 

 town there were 8 Portuguese vessels and some native 

 praus, under the command of George Bottello. Observing 

 this squadron to be somewhat careless, the king of Lingga 

 fell suddenly with his galley on the ship commanded by 

 Bottello, followed by the rest of his fleet; but met with so 

 warm a reception that his galley was taken, so that he had to 

 leap overboard, and the rest of the enemy's fleet was put to 

 flight. The siege was now raised, and Bottello conveyed 

 the king of Campar to Malacca, where he exercised the office 

 of Bendara with so much judgment and propriety, that in 

 four months the city was visibly improved, great numbers of 

 people resorting thither who had formerly fled to Mahmud to 

 avoid the oppressions of Kinachetu. Perceiving the growth 

 of the city under the wise administration of Abdela, Mahmud 

 determined to put a stop to this prosperity by means of a 

 fraud peculiar to a Moor. He gave out secretly, yet so that 

 it might spread abroad, that his son-in-law had gone over to 

 the Portuguese at Malacca with his knowledge and consent, 



