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Pacheco, to take fatisfadion ; which he endeavoured to effeA by blocking 
up the ports, and cutting off from the towns all fources of provifion, 
particularly their fifticries. As he cruifed between Acheen and Pafay, 
a boat with five men going to take in frefli water at a river near the 
latter, was nigh being cut off, had not the people, by wonderful efforts 
of valor, overcome the numerous party which attacked them. The ful- 
tan, alarmed for the confequences of this affray^ fent immediately to fue 
for reconciliation, offering to make reparation for the lofs of property 
the merchants had fuftained by the licentioufnefs of his people, from 
a participation in whofe crimes he endeavoured to vindicate himfelf. 
The advantage derived from the connexion with this place, induced the 
goverment of Malacca to be fatisficd with his apology, and cargoes of 
pepper and raw filk were fhortly after procured there; the former being 
much wanted for the fliips bound to China. 
Geinal who had fled to the king of Malacca, as before mentioned, 
followed that monarch to the ifland of Bintang, and received one of hts 
daughters in marriage. Sis or feven years elapfed before the fituation 
of affairs enabled the king to lend him any effectual afliftance, but at 
length fome victories gained oyer the Portuguefe afforded a proper op- 
portunity^ and accordingly a fleet was fitted out, with which Geinal 
failed for Pafay. In order to form a judgment of the tranfadlions of 
this kingdom^ it mufl; be underftood, that the people having an idea of 
predeftination, always conceived prefent poffeflion to conflitute righr, 
however that poffeflion might have been acquired ; but yet they made 
no fcruple of depofing and murdering their fovereigns, and juftified 
their ads by this argument ; that the fate of concerns fo important as 
the lives of kings^ was in the hands of God, whofe vicegerents they were, 
and that if it was notagteeable to him, and the confequence of his will, 
that they fliould perifh by the daggers of their fubjeds, it could not fo 
happen. Thus it appears that their religious ideas were juft ftrong 
enough to banifli from their minds every moral fentiment. The na- 
tural confequence of thefe maxims was, that their kings were merely 
the tyrants of the day ; and it is faid that whilft a certain fliip remained 
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