|lr4 SUMATRA. 
♦ bft extremity fled to the woods, but was feized ere long by the king of 
Paham*s fcouts. Being brought before the governor, be faid to him, 
with an undaonted countenance, " Behold here Lacfemanna, the iirft 
time overcome ! " He was treated wkh refpeit, but kept aprifoner, and 
ient, on his own famous ihip^ to Goa, in order to be from thence con- 
veyed to Portugal ; but death deprived his enemies of that dillingiiilhed 
ornament of their triumph, 
This Cgnal defeat proved fo miportant a blow to the power of Acheea, 
that we read of no further attempts to renew die war, until the year 
1635, when the king, encouraged by the feuds which at this time pre- 
vailed in Malacca, again violated ihe law of nations, to him little known, 
by imprifontng their emb alia dor, and caufcd all the Portuguefe about 
his court to be murdered* No military operations, however, imrnedi- 
atcly took place, in con fequcnce uf this barbarous proceeding. In the 
1S40. year 1640, the Dutch with twelve men of war, and the king of Acheen 
with twenty five gallies, appeared before that harrailed and devoted 
iHr. city which at length, in the following year, was wrcfted from the hands 
of the Portuguefe, who had fo long, through fuch difficulties, maintained 
polTeiEon of it. This year was alfo marked by the death of Sultan Pe- 
ducka Siri, at the age of fixty, after a teignof thirty five years, f Thus 
he lived to fee his hereditary foe fubdued ; and as if the oppofition of the 
Portuguefe power, which firft occafioncd the rife of that of Acheen, 
was alfo neceflary to its exiftencc^ the fplendor and confequence of 
the kingdom from that period rapidly declined* 
ti , , . 
The prodigious wealth and refources of the monarchy during his reign, 
are beft evinced by the expeditions he was enabled to fit out ; but being 
equally covetous as ambitious, he contrived to make the expences fall upon 
his fubjeds, and at the fame time filled his treafury with gold, by op- 
preffiog the merchants, and plundering the neighbouring flates. An 
intelligent perfon who was for fome time at his court, and had opportu- 
*• Faria y Soofa. * Here Pm^ de Sottfan'* hiilory of Partugucfe Afia concluded. 
^ Vi« dt6 Govtmcurs HoUandois* , . 
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