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a fine rock the guard-house, provided, as in Cola m ho, with 

 a lofty mast, whence the Company's flag floats on high as 

 soon as ships are discerned in the offing. 



Outside the town of Puncto gale, as also around the bay, 

 and further inland, there are beautiful fields, high mountains, 

 pleasant plains, and delightful walks, which are neatly laid 

 out here and there between lofty hillocks, crags, and rocks, 

 by digging and cutting through them, and are called 

 Gravettes. The district and villages included under Puncto 

 gale yield the Company no small profit, having frequently 

 realised in the farming out alone more than 15,000 rixdollars 

 a year. 



Chapter XX, 



We have thus given the reader a brief account of this 

 beautiful Island, and of the situation of almost all the 

 countries situated on the coast which were formerly held by 

 the Portuguese, in the height of their glory, power, and 

 dominion, as the dominant masters of Asia. But wealth and 

 prosperity make man proud and overbearing, and no small 

 number of the Portuguese are infected with this failing, 

 exulting in their self-conceit, beyond what the contemptible 

 insignificance of man justifies, and this breeds envy and 

 anger in those who must come into contact with these proud 

 persons. Christians, who desire a blessing from God 

 Almighty, should above all things consider the honour and 

 glory of God, and do good ; and in foreign countries should 

 treat even the heathen in a friendly manner, showing 

 themselves true representatives of Christian charity, faith, 

 and uprightness, but where this outward mark of life is dis- 

 regarded, all success is thwarted ignominiously. God grant 

 that we, Netherlander, be not as the Portuguese, who from of 

 old treated the inhabitants of Geilon harshly, tyrannically, 

 and unjustly ; and that this excited the wrath of God, and 

 the hatred of the people has been since made sufficiently 

 clear to that nation. 



