Chap. I. Oli VER VAN Noort. 3? 
Streio-ht of Manilla ; all the Trad approaching to which, there was good Anchoring, as alfo good Filhing in a neigh- 
they obferved, was wafte, barren, and rocky. Here a fud- hour River, and the Fifhermen very ready to barter their 
den Guft of Wind from the South-eaft carried away their Fifn for Linen Cloth. The Admiral, by a Meflenger, 
Mails and Sails, and treated them with more Fury, than craved Leave of the King to trade there ; but he, fufpeft- 
any thing they had before met with. The 23d, fome of ing them to be Spaniards , would come to no Terms with 
them went affiore, and eat Palmitos, and drank good Store them, till his Officers had fearched, and found the contrary ; 
of Water, after which they were feized with the bloody fo they traded here for Pepper with the Patannees , a Sort 
Flux. The 24th, they entered the Streight itfelf, and of People of a Chinefe Original The Borneans and they 
failed by the Hand in the Midft ; and, in the Evening, were fond of China Linen ; but that, which came out of 
paffed the Ifland Capul , Seven Miles within the Streight, Holland, , was a mere Drug. In the mean time the Borne- 
near which they found Whirlpools, as far as they could dif- ans laid a Plot to furprife their Ship ; and, to effect it, Ja- 
cover, bottomlefs. They now crouded Sail for Manilla , nuary the iff 1601. they came up to them with an Hundred 
which is Eighty Miles from Capul , wanting both Wind Praws, and, pretending to bring Prefents from the King, 
to carry, and good Maps and a Pilot to direeft them. would have boarded them ; but the Dutch , fuelling what 
14. November 7. they took a Junk of China, laden with thofe Prefents were, defirecl them to keep from their Vef- 
Provifion for Manilla : The Mailer of this Veffel gave fel, or they ffiould be obliged to m ike them do fo with 
them this Intelligence ; that there were then at Manilla Two their Shot 5 which Refolution of theirs the Borneans feeing, 
great Ships, that came every Year from New Spain thither, defiled from the Attempt. Borneo is the greatell Ifland in 
and a Butch Ship alfo, that was bought at Malacca ; that the Eaft Indies. The capital City, bearing the fame Name, 
the Town was walled about, and there were Two Forts to contains 3000 Houfes ; but ftands in a dirty, marfhy Soil; 
fee ure the Ships that ride there : That there was a vail fo that they may go in their Praws from one Houfe to 
Trade from China thither, no lels than 400 Ships coming another. The Inhabitants all go armed from the Nobleman 
every Year from Chincheo , with Silk and other valuable to the Fiffierman *, and the very Women have fo much of 
Things, between Eajter and December ; and particularly, the Soldier in their Compofition, that, if they receive any 
that Two Ships were fhortly expected from Japan , laden Affront, they prefently revenge themfelves with Dagger or 
with Iron, and other Metals, and Provifions. The 15th, Javelin upon him that gives it. This a Butch Man had 
they took Two Barks laden with Hens and Hogs, which like to have proved to his Coll ; for, having fome Way 
Were the Spanifh Tribute, but became Meat for the Butch , difgufted one of thefe Bornean Viragoes, fhe fet upon him 
as it happened, who fent them a few Linen Bolts in the with a Javelin, and had difpatched him, if fie had not been 
room of it. They palled the Hands Bankingle and Min- prevented by main Force. They are Mahometans in point 
dore , right againft which is the Ifle Lou-bon , at Two ofR.eligion, and fo very fuperftitious therein, that they’ll 
Miles Diftance ; and, between them both, is another fnaller fooner die than tafle any thing that comes from a Swine ; 
Ifland, by which there is a fafe Paffage for Ships. The neither will they keep any of thofe Creatures about them. 
Ifland Lujfon is bigger than England and Scotland , and has The better Sort of them have a Covering of Linen from 
a Cluller of fmaller Hands about it : It is more beholden to the Waill downwards, and a Cotton Turbant on their 
Trade, than to the Happinefs of its own Soil, for the Riches Pleads ; but the common People go all naked. They chew 
it enjoys. Lying at Anchor in 15 0 North Latitude, in a great deal of Beetle and Aracca in this Ifland, which is 
Expectation of thefe Japan Ships, December 1. they took alfo a mighty Fafhion in many other Parts, the Butch , 
one of them: She was of Fifty Ton Burden, and had feeing little Hope of profitable Trade here, failed for Ban- 
fpent Twenty-five Days in the Voyage. The Form of tarn, not extremely well pleafed either with the Country, or 
her was fomething llrange ; her Fore-part being like a its Inhabitants. 
Chimney, and her Furniture very agreeable to her Shape ; id. January the 4th in the Night, Four Borneans came 
the Sails being made of Reeds, the Anchors of Wood, and to the Ship, with a Defign to have cut their Cables, and 
the Cables of Straw. The Japonefe aboard her were all fo to have brought the Ship aground ; but, being difeo- 
bald, except one Tuft of Flair left behind ; and this is the vered, and pelted with Shot, they marched off, leaving 
Mode of that ’Country. The 9th, they took Two Barks, their Praw behind them ; which the Butch took inftead of 
one laden with Cocoa-wine and Aqua Vitas, and the other their own Boat loft at Manilla. The next Day they met 
with Hens and Rice. The 14th, they met with the Spanijh with a Junk from Japan , bound for Manilla , which inform- 
Ships returning Home from Manilla , upon which Meet- ed them of a great Butch Ship forced by Tempefts into 
ing commenced a very fmart Engagement : Th e Dutch, be- Japan, all the Company of which, by Famine and Sick- 
ing overpowered by Multitudes, were reduced to very bad nefs, were dead, to Fourteen ; that they came firft to Bongo 
Circumftances, their Admiral being boarded once by the in 34 0 40' North Latitude, and afterwards, by the King’s 
Spaniards, and almoft got intirely' into their Poffeffion. Order, removed to Atonza in 36° 30 ; that they were 
She was juft upon the Point of yielding herfelf to the Spa- there in a fafe Harbour, and had Liberty to trade, and build 
nijh Admiral, (who had prefled her very hard almoft all the a new Ship; which done, they might difpofe of themfelves 
Day) when her own Admiral, feeing all was loft without a as they pleafed. By this Account, they doubted not but 
very refolute Puftt, threatened to blow up Ship, Men and this Ship was VerhageA s Admiral ; fo, dif miffing the Ja- 
all, if they did not beat the Spaniards off again, and fight ponefe Veffel, they went on, and paffed the Line a Third 
at a better Rate : The Butch , at this, hurried on with time, failing in no little Fear and Danger for want of a 
Rage, Fear, and Deipair of preferving themfelves any Pilot, and good Charts. The 1 6th, they took a Junk cf 
other Way, fought to fo good Purpofe, that, in a little Jor, and in her a fkilful Pilot, who came in good Time to 
time, .they cleared their own Ship, boarded the Spanijh lave them from Shipwreck, which otherwife, in all Likeli- 
Admiral, and at laft funk her. This Adftion coft them no hood, had, been their Fate in thofe Seas; for now they had 
more than Five Lives, and Twenty-fix more endangered but one Anchor left, and the Cable of that almoft worn out ; 
by Wounds, the whole Company left being now but and, befides, had fo many Shoals and Hands about them 
Thirty-five. But of the Spaniards there were feveral Hun- on every Side, that it was an eafy Matter for a Ship, a 
dreds that periftied, partly in the Fight, and partly drowned Stranger there, to have mifearried. Some of thefe Hands 
and knocked on the Head after the Fight was over. The were Bint a and Grinjata, which yield Diamonds, that are 
greatell Lofs the Butch had was that of their Pinnace, fold at Malacca. The 28th, they came to Jortan upon the 
which encountered the Spanijh Vice-admiral, and was taken Me of Java, where they had News of Dutch Ships at Ban* 
by her; which was noftrange Thing, confidering fhe had tam. The City confifts of about 1000 Timber Houfes. 
but i wenty-five Men to fight againft Five hundred Spani- The King commands a confiderable Part of that End of 
ards and Indians. the Hand, and had lately conquered Balambuan , a little 
AS? From hence they fet Sail for Borneo, the chief Town Hand, that lies juft by the South-eaft of Jortan. TlvV 
of the Me of that Name, which is j 80 Miles from Manilla, are faid to be Mahometans in the Country thereabouts, thM 
and lies in 5 0 North Latitude, as Manilla does in about the Pagods in Ufe flill feem to argue fome Kind of Mix 
1 4° 4V 1 and, in their Way to it, paffed by Bolutan , an ture of the old Indian Superftition with that of Mahomet, or 
Ifland 1 go Miles Jong. The 26th, they came to Borneo , at leafl a Toleration of it jn the Whole amongft the corn- 
putting into a great Bay s Three Miles in Compafs, where mon People. Their chief Prieft is an old Man of 120, 
