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Dutch Fleet in thofe parts, he being 
raucli refpeded among the Mahometans 
ever fince his burning of the Galleons 
near Mortnagon : But the Death of the 
faid Admiral prevented the delign of 
that King, as much queltioning whether 
his Succciror might be a Man ot the fame 
ftamp. In the year 1641. the faid King 
promifed a fecond time to form the Siege 
of Goa, provided the Dutch Company 
would engage to let a certain number of 
their Ships winter at Dahul^ Ortz.tr)' ^ or 
iome other of his Majefty's Harbours, 
which v/as no more thaii a neceflTary Pre- 
caution ^ it being certain, that in cafe the 
Siege fiiould mifcarry, the Portuguefes 
without our AlTiftance would have made 
themfelves Mafters of thefs Harbours. 
Formerly it was accounted dangerous to 
fend our Ships to the Bar of Goa before 
/ O^oher ^ but Experience has taught us 
ilnce, that this Coaft of the Jndtet is na- 
vigable towards the latter end of Auguft^ 
or in September^ the exad time when the 
rich Ships come from Mofambique, MaJ- 
catte^ and divers other places, which 
have fometimes been taken by our Ships ^ 
Mow Goa whereas if they come later, they have 
M to be nothing elfe to do but to attempt the 
block^il up Galleons under the Caftle. In the year 
tji Sea. J 5^0. the Portuguefes made fiiift to bring 
into the Harbour two Caracls^ and as 
many Galleons, well provided with Men, 
and all other Neceffaries, which gave 
them the opportunity to fortify the Ifls 
of A'formagon \ Hnce which time, to ren- 
der the Blockade by Sea the more effedu- 
al, the Hollanders have order'd certain 
Frigots to cruife with a Sloop near the 
Cape and the Burned J/lands (calFd Ilhas 
quimadd'i ) whereby the Portuguefe Cajji- 
Icis^ which fupply them with Provilions, 
are prevented from going out or in. 
Tfcf Dutch It is fufficiently demonflrable, that the 
care not to J)utch Company did at firll judg it for 
be Mafters their intereft to be Mafters of Goa^ but 
f/ Goa. j^j^ j(. g{-j(jg afterwards, thinking it more 
for their intereft to block up the Bar of 
God: Certain it is, that both the Di- 
redors and the Governor and Members 
of the Great Council of the Indies.^ look'd 
upon the War betwixt them and Portu- 
Tbe Wur g^l as propitious to them, as is evident 
detmxt from the Petition deliver'd in May 16^1. 
the Dutch by the fai(i Diredois in the Hague to 
and?on\X' g^^^gg General of the Vnited Pro- 
gueles 
popitioM vtnces. 
tithe fir]]. The chief intent of this Petition 
was, to fhew. That tho it was be- 
yond all queftion that the Duitch Eajl- 
Indta Company was erefted in its firfl 
beginning in the years iS'oi, 1601, and 
Vol. Ill, . 
1 604. to carry on a peaceable Commerce rvA-m 
in the Indies \ but that iince Experience Balaam. 
had fufficienly convinc'd them, that the O^V^. 
Portuguefes^ who had play'd the Maftcrs 
in the hidies for many years before, had 
left no Hone unturn'd to difturb the Com- 
merce of the Dutch.^ by feizing their Ships, 
and imprinting very difadvantageous No- 
tions of them into the Indian. Princes. 
That in 1602. when the Dutch Ectfl-P,ul:a 
Trade v/as incorporated into one Society 
or Company, two peculiar Advantages 
were (among others) obtain'd thereby 
at that time: Firll, Full Authority of 
protecting their Traffick jointly in the 
Indies by force of Arms: The Confe- 
quence whereof had been, fecond ly, That 
the Indian Princes were eater'd into an 
Engagement with the faid Dutch Com- 
pany, out of hatred and fear of the 
Portuguefes j that by thefe means the 
Ships of the Company having pur- 
ged the Seas of the Pirats, had fettled 
fince the year 1504, their Faftories and 
Traffick, not only in all the Iflandsfrom 
the Red Sea as far as Japan.^ but alfo in 
the Territories of the Grand Signior, in 
Arabia, at Mocha, in Perfta, even in the FuUmcs 
Capital City of If pah an, lu. the King- «/ ^^^"^ 
dom of Cambaja, and the Empire of the 
Great Mogul, in Dec an, in Malabar^ Nar- 
Jmga, Coromandel, Golgonda, Bcngale, Ar cl- 
ean, Pegu, Acljin^ Sumatra, Jambt, Palim- 
ban. Bantam, Cambodia, Siam, Cochin- Chi- 
na,Tonquin, &:c. That llnce the Eftablifn- 
ment of thefe Fadories, the iecurity of 
their Commerce was chiefly founded up- 
on this Maxim, to maintain a War a- 
gainft the declar'd Enemy of thefe Indian 
Princes, their Engagements to us being 
founded upon their opinion of our Enmi- 
ty with the Portuguefes. To prove this 
they alledg the following ten Reafons, 
1. Becaufe the Dutch Eafl-lndta Com- Ten Rea- 
pany was chiefly by means of the War /'"'^/'"'f'^e 
with the Portuguefes arriv'd to that Great- ^"f'^^fjf^ 
nefs It IS now at, their whole Traffick i.;th the 
ill the Indies being founded upon this porcu- 
Bafis, whence they draw yearly a re- guefcs, 
turn of 78910 Millions of Geldersj and 
if the faid Foundation were not fhaken, 
tliey might expect every year larger Re- 
turns. 
2. That in cafe of a Truce they fiiould 
not reap the fruits of the Vidories, viz., 
to put a flop to their Pov/er, a thing ab- 
folutely to be conlider'd. 
3. In cafe of a Truce the Equip nent 
of many Ships of War would be laid 
afide, by which means Holland would be 
depriVd of the Strength of a confide- 
rable number of Men of War in cafe cf 
necefTjty. 
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4. That 
