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will tell you hardly to be believ'd, but that which is a certain truth, which, 

 is, that when any other King or Raja has one of thefe Elephants of ' Ceylan, 

 if they bring him among any other breed in any other place whatever, fo foori 

 as the other Elephants behold the Ceylon Elephants, by an inftincl: of na- 

 ture, they do him reverence, laying their trunks upon the ground, and raifing 

 them up again. 



The King of Achen, with whom the Hollanders alfo broke their word had 

 more opportunity to be reveng'd upon them then the King of Candy. For he 

 deni'd them the tranfportation of Pepper out of his Country, without whicli 

 their trade was worth little. His Pepper being that which is moft coveted by 

 the Eaft. So that they were fore'd to make a compofition with him. The King 

 of Achens Embaflàdor coming to Batavia, was ftrangely furpriz'd to fee wo- 

 men fitting at the table } but much more, when after a health drank to the 

 Queen of Achen, the General of Batavia commanded his Wife to go and kifs 

 the Embaflàdor. Nor was the King behind hand with the Butch Embalfador 

 another way ; whom the King beholding in a languifhing diftemper, ask'd him 

 whether he had never any familiarity with any of the Natives. Yes, replied 

 the Embaflàdor ; however I left her to marry in my own Country. Upon that 

 the King commanded three of his Phyficians to cure him in fifteen days, upon 

 the forfeiture of their lives. Thereupon they gave him a certain potion every 

 morning, and a little Pill at night ; and at the end of nine days he took a great 

 Vomit. Every body thought he would have dy'd with the working of it j but 

 at length it brought up a ftopple of courfe hair, as big as a nut; after which 

 he prefently recover'd. At his departure the King gave him a Flint about the 

 bignefs of a Goofe Egg, with veins of Gold in it, like the veins of a mans 

 hand, as the Gold grows in that Country. 



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CHAP. XXT. 



The Authors departure from Ceylan, and his arrival at Batavia. 



THE twenty -fifth of May we fet fail from Ponte Galle. The fécond of 

 fftne we pafè'd the Line. The fixth we faw the Ifland call'd JSÏaz.aco's. 

 The feventeenth we difcover'd the Coaft of Sumatra, the eighteenth the Ifland 

 of Ingamina, and the nineteenth the Ifland of Fortune. The twentieth we were 

 in ken of certain little Iflands, and the Coaft of fava ; among which Iflands 

 there are three call'd the Iflands of the Prince. The one and twentieth we dif- 

 cover'd Bantam, and the two and twentieth we anchor'd in the Road of Ba- 

 tavia. 



There are two Councils in Batavia, the Council of the Fort, where the Ge- 

 neral prefides, and where all the affairs of the Company are manag'd. The other, 

 which is held in a Houfe in the City, and relates to the Civil Government, and 

 decides the petty differences among the Citizens. 



All the kindnefê I had (hew'n me here, was to be profecuted by the City 

 Council, for being fufpefted to have bought a parcel of Diamonds for Moun- 

 fieur Confiant,- my verv good Friend, and Prefident of the Dutch Fattory at 

 Comron ; but when they could make nothing of it, they ceas'd their fuit, a-^ 

 fliam'd of what they had done. 



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