VALENTYN’S AGCOUNT OF MALACCA. 
(Resumed from p. 138 of Fournal No. 15 of Fune, 1885.) 
Upon hearing this, Mr. Materier, growled not a little at 
the Bandahara, and threatene'l to mention it to the King, who, 
he was sure, would order more troops at once. The King hav- 
ing promised him some 1,200 men, Maretter once more land- 
ed with 300 men of his own troops and 800 Malays, fortified 
a brick house, built a bridge over the river, and took the con- 
vent; but a short time afterwards requiring some more Ma- 
lay troops. and the King having sent him only 200 men, he 
could not do anything else but try and starve out the town ; he 
landed some more guns to enable his troops, covered by some 
rough wooden intrenchments, to approach the town gra- 
dually, though they were still very much exposed to the 
fire of the Portuguese Forts St. Dominco, Mapre ve Deos, 
Sr JAGO, and to that of the convent of St. Pauto. In the 
meantime, the Governor, ANpREA Fvurrtrapo, had _ been 
fortunate enough to introduce secretly into the place some 
people from the neighbourhood, whilst, a short time be- 
fore our troops had landed, two galleys coming from Pahang, 
had smuggiled into the place a small detachment of 60 Euro- 
pean soldiers. On the other hand, many of our troops got 
sick, partly from overwork and partly from excess in drinking 
arrack and eating fruit; finally two vessels called the United 
Countries and the Lrasmus coming from the Maas and arriving 
off Malacca on the 14th July, brought relief to our troops. He 
now had eleven vessels with him, viz., the Orange, the Middel- 
burg, the Mauritius, the Black Lion, the White Lion, the Great 
Sun, the Nassau, the Amsterdam, the Small Sun, and the two 
vess: ls mentioned as coming from the Maas, and besides these 
he had seven small vessels. Now andthen were sorties made, 
some from the town, but without any result, neither did our 
troops make much progress, and there were daily many sick 
people among them. This lasted till the month of August, 
