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attendants. She presented Tuan Hadjee with a small 
corocoro y and from him I learned the foUowiug account 
of her lord. Some time about the year 1770, a number 
of Papua boats from New Guinea, the islands Aroo, 
Salwatty, and Mysol, near the time of the vemal equinox, 
when the seas are generally smooth, assembled to the 
number of more than a bundi-ed, and sailed np the Strait 
of Patientia, which divides Batchian from Gololo. They 
committed no hostilities i but the Dutch, apprehensive of 
what they might do, sent to them, and made the chiefs 
presents of cloth, &c., upon which they dispersed ; and 
after fishing a few days, and hunting in the woods, they 
went home. However, the Hajah of Salwatty stayed 
behindj but neither be nor any of bis people did any 
mischief. The Dutch, willing to get the Kajah into their 
power, fell on the following stratagem. They sent a 
messenger to htm witli a paper, signed and scaled by the 
Governor of Temate, telling him it was a pardon and 
remission of his aala (offence) for having come with an 
armed force into the Dutch territories ; and that he, in 
particulai", was more lucky than the other Papua chiefs, 
who had returned home without such a formal absolution. 
At the same time, he was invited to come and see Ternate, 
whei-e the governor would do him all kinds of honour 
suitable to his rank ; and in case he should fancy anything 
in the Company^'s warehouses, he had a bag of dollars 
presented him. This was the bait. The Coffree chief, 
sensible the dollars could buy him nothing in bis own 
country, whither he certainly migbt have carried them, 
and having heard of the fine things to be bought of the 
Dutch at Ternate, could not resist the temptation of 
