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stones, porcupine quills, a quantity of rice, agallochium from the 
coast, and also some wares which have been brought here by the 
southern natives who will not go to Malacca. In the same land 
there are two rivers *° belonging to the same king, where the 
Portuguese go to trade in the same merchandise. Facing this 
place to the sea lies the small mountainous island of Pulo Timo” 
thickly populated by Malays. Pigeons are plentiful, and there is a 
certain kind of animal called palandos,* which resembles a deer 
and is very good and fat. There are very fine fresh water fish, 
rivers of excellent water, and an abundance of figs* and tar.” 
The anchorage close in to land is in 25 fathoms. 
Port Jor lies inland from Point Romania. It is once again 
becoming inhabited,” and many galleys and other vessels are being 
built there. There is an abundance of provisions, agallochium 
and tar. 
On the other side, in the chain of islands called Bintang, lies 
the town of Bintang, which is once again inhabited. It is thickly 
populated, and has many fortifications for fear of Achem. This 
King of Jor and Pam has other inhabited but unimportant islands 
in this vicinity. 
Here close to the Straits of Singapore, is the port of Bulla, 
thickly populated with Malays and frequented to excess by numbers 
of merchants from all the southern tribes, who come here to sell 
their wares, from which the King of Pam receives great profit. 
They come here rather than go to Malacca because of the great 
abuses committed by the captains of that fortress, who buy their 
merchandise at a price much lower than the current price of the 
country and also compel them to accept their money: a thing 
which is very usual in all the towns and fortresses of the Portu: 
guese State; and which causes as much misery as the Dutch 
themselves. To such an extent is the abuse carried that even when 
Christians come to these ports of Malacca to trade in certain kinds 
of merchandise the captain seizes their wares, assessing them at a 
price below their real value and using much abuse: and for this 
reason some merckants bring their wares to the customs house at 
night time in order to pay duty to the customs official in secret. 
All this is the cause of great losses to Malacca. 
On the other side of the island on the coast of Sumatra lies 
the port of Jambi, on a deep and rapid river, which contains a large 
body of water. The Dutch are much welcomed here and have a 
factory and a large trade in pepper. Further on, a little distance 
from this port, towards Malacca, is the large river Andregy,” where 
the Dutch also procure a quantity of pepper. There are other 
rivers from which pepper and agallochium are exported, of which 
no special mention is made because they are unimportant. The 
port of Siaca,” also inhabited by Malays, is close to the Island of 
Sabam, which is nearer to Malacca. Here at every new and full 
moon great fairs are held where all the merchandise of the south is 
sold, gold, precious stones, bezoar stones, agallochium, calambac, 
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