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abundance of provisions of tortoise shell, and Malacca receives its 
chief supplies from. it. All parts of the state are in communication 
with this island. It has churches and fathers who administer the 
sacraments to the Portuguese residents and visitors. This King 
has promised not to receive the Dutch in his lands, but he has 
Danish and English residents. When this king and all his people 
were heathens, he sent to Malacca for a priest to instruct him in 
the Christian creed, which he intended to adopt if it pleased him. 
It is said that there was more delay than there should have been 
in such an important matter, and that a sailor, a Moor called Lucar, 
arrived at the country in the meantime and taught his creed to the 
King, who considered it so good that he immediately adopted it. 
From Malacca to Pera is a distance of forty leagues of coast 
to the east. The King of this place was for many years a vassal of 
His Majesty and paid in tribute a large quantity of tin. Three 
years ago he refused the tribute saying that only if His Majesty 
would deliver him from the King of Achem he would be His 
Majesty’s vassal and pay tribute. He said that the numerous fleets 
from Achem, which throng these seas, frequently attacked his lands 
devastating them and taking the people captive. He well knew, 
he said, how much more important it was to be His Mayjesty’s 
vassal than to be vassal of the King of Achem. He said that he 
had no power however to resist the tyrant and his great forces, and 
that if His Majesty did not supply the means, he himself must seek 
a remedy in his own kingdom by becoming a vassal of the King of 
Achem, and paying to him the tribute he formerly paid to His 
Majesty. In spite of this, he was abie to resist our fleet when it 
was sent chastise him. 
There are great tin mines in his kingdom, the metal of which 
we hhave already spoken, and thus five or six quintals”’ of tin are 
yearly extracted from them. The greater part of it formerly came 
to Malacea, but now not a third part is sent there. The rest is 
taken by the Dutch to Achem, and thence they carry it to India 
with great profit. 
The factory possessed by the Captain of Malacca at Pera was 
one which at one time yielded greater profit than any other. But 
now it yields nothing, and for this and other reasons the. fortress 
has become so ruined that in the year 1633 no one could be found 
willing to fill the post of captain; and a captain was appointed and 
sent by the viceroy. 
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NOTES. 
A corruption of the Malay words wong, end, and tanah, land— 
literally ““land’s end’: it is the name applied to the lower part 
of the Malay Peninsula. Ujontana or Ujantana are the more 
common forms in the Portuguese accounts: thus de Barros (in 
A. D. 1552) writes, ““ you must know that Ujantana is the most 
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911. 
folio 3860. 
iL, Juntana. 
