A Dejcripion of the Coafts of 
'-\J'\^ 4. That in cafe of an abatement of 
Baldaus. the Equipment of Ships of War for the 
'♦^-^ Eajl. Indies^ and confequently of the di- 
minution of our Trade in the Indies^ and 
the return of our Ships from thence, 
the advantage accruing to Holland by the 
Convoys muft alfo be neceflarily dimi- 
nifti'd. 
5. That many thoufands of Families 
in the Indies would thereby be depriv'd 
of their livelihood. 
6. That the whole Eafl-Jndia Trade, 
by which many Millions are gainM yearly, 
would decay in proportion as the Portu- 
guefes lliould increafe in the faid Traf- 
fick. 
7. That in regard of the Intereft of 
the Dutch Company it ought to be confi- 
der'd, that lince of late years they had 
been at vaft Expences in providing Ships 
of War, and lifting of Soldiers, they 
were ( through God's Bleffing ) in a pro- 
bability of making further Conquefts up- 
on the Portugmfes. 
8. That in cafe the Eajt-India Trade 
fliould come to decay, and confequently 
their Profit be diminilh'd, they would be 
in danger of being quite opprefs'd by the 
heavy burden they lay under of provi- 
ding Garifons and other Necellaries a- 
gainfl the Attempts of the Europeans their 
Enemies. 
9. That thereby the Dutch Company 
would be exposed to the hazard of being 
depriv'd of all the advantages they had 
gain d by right of Arms from the Portu- 
guefes^ or otherwife. 
I o. In cafe of a Peace or Ceflation of 
Arms betwixt the Dutch Company and 
the Portuguefes, it was to be fear'd, that 
the good underflanding betwixt the faid 
Company and the Indian Princes, would 
foon decay, to the no fmall detriment 
and danger of the Company and their 
Servants, efpecially in Japan : which 
TrafEck if it were loft, the Trade of 
China would be of little confequence ; a 
Peace or Truce with the Portugutfcs being 
abfolutely contrary to the Engagements 
they had with the Indian Kings. 
in confideration therefore of the great 
detriment that would accrue to the faid 
Company by a Peace with the Portuguefes, 
the faid Diredors did moft humbly pe- 
tition their High and MightinelFes to take 
it into ferious Confideration, whether 
the Damages their Subjeds, and efpecially 
the Company, were likely to fufFer there- 
by, would not in a great meafure ovcr- 
ballance the Advantages the States might 
promife themfelves from a Peace with 
Pmugal-^ and in cafe they judged the 
Peace with Portugal abfolutely for their 
Intereft, whether the Eafi-Jndies might 
not be excepted in the faid Peace, as was 
done in the Truce concluded i6op. and 
whereof other Inflances were in frelh 
memory betwixt France^ England and 
Spain^ who notwithftanding they were 
enter'd into Alliances fince the Condu- 
fion of the Peace in Europe^ yet did con- 
tinue the War in the Indies^ as is evident 
from the Englijh Squadrons appearing 
before Mofambique^ Goa and Manilha^ and 
the affifting of the Perfians in the Con- 
queft of Ormtis againft the Portuguefes. 
Laftly, They requefted, that in cafe 
their High and Mightinefl^es did not judg 
their Reafons of fuch weight as to ft<5p 
the Truce in the Eajl- Indies^ betwixt the 
Company and the Portuguefes^ who late- 
ly have lhakcn off the Spani/h Dominion, 
and imbrac'd the Intereft of K. John IV. 
their High and MightinefTes wot'Id be 
pleafed at leaft to delay the Conclufiora 
thereof till Advice could be had whether 
any of the Places belonging to the Portu- 
guefes in the Indies had declar'd for the 
new King, that theDireftors might have 
the opportunity (in cafe of an enfuing 
Truce) to recal fuch of their Servants 
as were perhaps engag'd in the Service of 
fome of the Indian Princes, without 
which they might be in danger of being 
furpriz'd and feiz'd there, to their irre- 
coverable Detriment. 
The Bar of Goa had for a confiderable Goa 
time been kept block'd up by a Squadron Ww^V us 
of Dutch Ships, the better to annoy the ^ ^^f 
Portuguefes in their Traffick. James '^^^ 
Cooper kept the faid Harbour block'd up 
for three years fuccelfively, as Commo- 
dore, who was fucceeded by ^4dam IVefler- 
mid (of which hereafter in the Defcrip- 
tion of Ceylon') and he by Jnthony Kaan, 
In the year 1539. commanded before 
that place Cornelius Simonfon yan der Veer 
( ment-ion'd before ) a brave Commander:; 
and 1 54 1. Matthew Hendrikfz, Quajl wizk 
I o Ships, and 1 1 47 Men : This Fleet took 
a Carack richly laden from Portugal j 
but he being kill'd in the Engagement, 
was fucceeded by Cornelius Leendertfz. 
Blaau^ Rcer Admiral. 
In the year 1642. two Portuguefe Am- Tm rcr- 
bafTadors, nam'd Diego Mendes de Britto^ tugijefe 
and Gonfalvo riUofo de Sana Jofepfj, a 
Religious of the Order of S. Francis^ be- ^^y^^ 
ing fent by the Portuguefe Viceroy of the 
Indies to the General and Great Council 
of the Indies at Batavia. The fame were 
order'd to be receivM with all marjcs of 
Honour and Refped : For which purpofe 
Mr. John Maatmyker^ chief Penfionary^ 
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