MALACCA HARBOUR, ONS: 
“among the foreign ships which were in the 
port of Malacca ;”’ 
“alongside of this tower” ‘i.e. ‘a keep of 
four storigs height along the sea’’ which 
Albuquerque built close to his own fortress) 
‘one of our ships of two hundred tons burthen 
could come whenever it was desired.” 
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CRAWFURD quotes DE BARROS to the following effect for 
a description of the Town of Malacca at the time ALBUQUERQUE 
took it: © Our people, although they did not see majestic 
structures of stone and mortar, or ramparts, or towers, or indeed 
any other kind of defence, beheld notwithstanding a town 
extending along the beach for a good league, and ranged along 
the shore, many merchant vessels.”’ 
CRAWFURD himself says, referring to the two islands 
already mentioned “it was near these that Albuquerque with 
his armada cast anchor in 1511, and at which also were wont 
to anchor the largest caraques of the Portuguese in five and six 
fathoms water. This part of the roads is now only accessible 
to small craft, owing to the growth of extensive mud-banks 
dry at low water, and the anchorage of vessels of burthen is at 
the inconvenient distance of two miles from the shore.”’ 
In the Commentaries of ALBUQUERQUE we find the follow- 
ing statement made by °RUY DE ARAUJO when advising that 
the bridge of Malacca © ought to be attacked before anything 
for if they took that and made themselves strong in it, our 
people would be placed just between the city and the inhabitants 
of Upe, and the power of King divided into two parts.” — 
The ‘city’? was on the Stadt House side of the river. 
Further on we find: © and while he (the King of Malacca) was 
thus occupied with the fortifying of the stcckades, a Javanese 
headman, who was called Utemutarajah, who lived in the 
Settlement of Upe, and had abcut five cr-six thousand Javanese 
slaves of his own, or of his sons and sons-in-law, a very rich 
man, and one who traded very extensively to all parts of the 
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