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1832.] ISLAND OP SUMATRA. TQ? 
Smida, and was thus the first European navigator to sail round 
the Island of Sumatra. But here, as elsewhere, they had scarcely- 
set foot upon the island, before contentions and bloody feuds took 
place between them and the Sultans of Acheen and Pasay. It 
was at the latter place, in 1521, they made an attack on the town 
and ruling prince Geinal, with the ostensible object of setting up 
the legal heir to the throne ; but which was no sooner accom- 
phshed, than they required of this prince, as the reward of their 
magnanimous interference, the whole monopoly of the pepper 
trade within his territory, the expenses of the enterprise, and 
permission to erect forts and estabhsh themselves on his soil. 
Protection it was : but it was that protection the tiger gives to the 
kid, when left alone upon the mountains ! 
Flushed with success, and urged on by cold, heartless, insatiate, 
all-grasping avarice, during the same year, an expedition under 
Brito, three hundred strong, and without the slightest provocation, 
was directed against Acheen. But here a different destiny awaited 
them. ^ At the moment of landing, other vessels entered the port 
and proffered their assistance. This was not accepted, as it 
would increase the number among whom the gold must be divided. 
The Achenese waited their arrival, couched as the tiger of their 
own native mountains, and at a concerted signal, rushed upon them 
with all the tiger's fierceness. The slaughter was terrible, and 
scarcely a Portuguese escaped. 
In less than two years they were driven from their establish- 
ment at Pasay, by the same Sultan Abraham, who, having thrown 
off his allegiance to the King of Pedeer, now reigned at Acheen. 
This warlike monarch for years not only kept the Portuguese in 
check, but often, with large armaments, carried on offensive oper- 
ations against their principal establishment on the coast of Malacca. 
In fifteen hundred and thirty-seven, he was succeeded by Alnadin, 
who followed in his footsteps, and waged perpetual war against their 
treacherous invaders, whom, in derision, they called " Caffresr The 
force called into existence by these people is astonishing! Ex- 
pedition after expedition sailed from Acheen. At one time, no less 
than one hundred and fifty sail, with seven thousand men, crossed 
the channel for the destruction of their enemies. At this period 
arose the great warrior Lacsemanna, whose deeds are still re- 
membered among the Malays. For forty years did he contend 
