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hnn never risen to any great importance. The 

 Dntvh at the beginning of the I81I1 century had 

 a factory here,* ihe pnjdace being tin, rice, fruits, 

 and occasioDally a considerable quantity of pepj ten 

 Somewhere t about A. D. 1700, the Burmef^e 

 over-ran Siam, and Lisfore followed the fate of its 

 master. In 1788—89, however, Pia Tack, an in- 

 dividual dihtingnished for his enterprizirig charac- 

 ter, seized the supreme authority of Siam. whesice 

 he expelled the Burmese, and» amongst other cou- 

 quests, regained Ligore, wliich has ever since re* 

 maiued an integral portmnaf that empire, and has 

 been employed as its instruraent for the reduction 

 of Kedah. 



Before I conclude these notices of the piratical 

 Blalayan States, I will here allude to a supersti- 

 tion prevalent among them with regard to fortu- 

 nate and unlucky days, by which they are niucli 

 influenced in all their nautical expeditions. This 

 has naturally arisen from the ob.<ervance of the 

 weather to which they have been led by the ma- 

 ntime mode of life, upon which the superstition 

 has been readily engrafted in consequence of the 

 ignorance and darkness in which their minds are 

 enveloped. 1'abtes of every day iu the year have 

 been accordingly constructed ; and. as 1 have not 

 met with one which has as yet been given £0 the 

 public, f annex an original one, belonging to the 

 family uf Johore, with a trduslation and explaua- 

 tiou * 



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