SUMATRA, 271 
In later days, the influence of the Dutch, whofe fettlement of Pa- 
dang lies in the neighbourhood, has greatly contributed to the under- 
mining the political confequence of its monarch, by giving countenance 
and fuppon to his difobedient vafTals : who> in their turn, have oftcii 
experienced the dangerous elfedts of receiving favors from too powerful 
an ally. Rajah CanaUee, who was his viceroy of Pajfamman^ maintained 
a long war with the Hollanders, which was attended with many reverfes 
of fortune. 
The titles and eptrhets affumed by the Sultans, in the preambles to ^i* ^^1*** 
their edi<fts and letters, are the moft extravagantly ahfurd that it is pof- 
fible to imagine ; fiirp ifTing, in wildnefs and folly, the prseteroatural 
attributes of the VtxXvm ge tt znd dives ^ Many of them deiccnd to mere 
childiihnefs • and it is difficult to conceive how any people, ib far ad- 
vanced in civilization, as to be able to write, could poflibly difplay fuch 
evidences of barbarifm. A fpccimen of a warrant of recent date, fent 
to Tooanco Soonge^ ^(^goo^ a high prieft refiding near Bencoolen, is a$ 
follows, 
the abundance of gold carried itllTtier fVom Mencmcm^ ajua Sarrsos^ coutttnca in 0,aniafTa*' 
Hcrbm's trivels i printed i6jj. ** Medifcrranean town Mananca&Gy formerly called S^nd^ 
Cauda'* — Argcnfola, 1586. •* Crizes made ai Mm&ngcsi/Of and cannon call, many years 
before the Europeans arriveti in che country." — Vies dc Govern eurs Generals HgJIandois, 
** Wcii Coa!l of Suruafra brought under fubjeflion to Uie Dutch in 1 664, by the fleet of Psen-e 
de Bitter 5 ftam Silltbarjtri Barrels > Ptf.fej^ fettlement eftablifhed in 1667, The commandant 
of Fad^i^g is Stadtiixdir to the Emptior of Munirtgmbo^ Revolts in the country in the years 
166 5» »68o, and 17 »3'" Diogo de Couto» 1600. He gives an acmunt of a Portuguefe 
ihi|j wrecked on the coaft of Sumatrs, near to the country of Mmmmbs^ in 1560. Six hundred 
perfons got on fliore, among whom were fome women, one of whom. Dona Francifca Sardinha, 
was of fueh remarkable beauty, that the people of the country rcfoked to carry her off^ for their 
king I and they effeflcd it, after a ftruggle in which fisty of the Europeans Itjft their live*. At 
this period there was a great iutcrcourre between Menangcah'w and Malaccat many velTeJs going 
yearly with go]d, to purchafe cotton goods and other merchandize. In ancient times ilie country 
vnt fo rich in this metal, that fevenl hundred weight (fm^feii^ e mats cmdtXf dt pte fm /asctm 
, kum myo) ufed to be exported in one feafon. Vol. 5. 
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