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Pepper at all Times, but efpecially in December, January , 
and February. No Trade can be carried on at this Place 
without a Licence from the King of Achen , which they 
call Chappa , or Chop , and if you have that, neither the 
Governor, nor the King, can difturb you. - For want of 
it, I could neither fell any Commodities, nor buy any 
Pepper, excepting about 8000 Pounds that was brought 
by Night from Friaman , and fold me at a reafonable 
Price. 
The Surat Commodities go off very well here, as well 
the Majjidipatan Commodities. Rials are current enough, 
but the Money of Achen does not pafs. All their Money is 
fome lmall Pieces of Gold that come from the Mine, which 
they weigh with Scales ; and fell their Pepper by Bahars, 
a Weight containing 115 Pounds Averdupois , and the 
King of Achen has 1 5 per Cent . of all that is fold, that is 7 
and an half for the Export of the Pepper, and 7 and an half 
for the Import of the Rials, or Commodities given in Ex- 
change for it j this Cuftom is either paid in Commodities, 
or in Rials, ever valuing the prime Coft. Befide the 
above-mentioned Impoft for every hundred Bahars, we 
pay twenty-five Rials to the King of Ficow , and a quar- 
ter Part to the Weigher, and fome inconfiderable Allow- 
ance to ten or twelve Perfons more. But above all, one 
mull make the Governor his Friend, and have a watch- 
ful Eye over all the Malayans , who are apt to wet the 
Pepper, or to put Sand and little Stones among it. 
24. January the firft 1621, having brought on Board 
my fick Men, who began to recover apace, I weighed 
Anchor, and fleered for Achen. The fourteenth we were 
off of Barr os, one of the moll considerable Places on that 
Coaft belonging to the King of Achen, where no Perfon 
can traffick without the King’s Leave. This Place is half 
Way between Ficow and Achen, and affords Plenty of 
Benjamin, which ferves the Natives for Money. It is a 
pleafant Country, abounding with all forts of Wines and 
Fruits, but bears no Pepper. It affords Plenty of Cam- 
pfire, which is worth fourteen or fifteen Rials the Catti, 
or twenty-eight Ounces. Rials will fcarce pafs there, but 
the Surat, or Coaft Commodities, go off very well. Both 
the Inhabitants of the Coaft, and the Dutch and Englifb-, 
buy up their Camphire to carry it to Surat, and the Strait 
of Sonda . The twenty-third we deferied the high Lands 
of Achen , and the Hands that lie to the Sea- ward of that 
Road. We flood directly for thefe Elands, but it was 
eight Days before we could make them, notwithftanding 
that we were but four Leagues off ; for, wanting a Pilot, 
we took the Channel that lies neareft the Land, where the 
contrary S. E. Winds incommoded us very much ; at laft, 
with much ado, we weathered them about a League and 
a half from the Road, which lies oppofite to the Mouth 
of a River, upon which there Hands a Fort, very remark- 
able for its Mofque. 
The thirtieth I came to an Anchor juft by an EngUJh 
Ship of 60a Tuns, that rode there. Immediately a Boat 
came off from Shore with feveral of the King’s Officers, 
and one of his Eunuch’s, carrying a Chappe, as they call 
it, which is a Dagger with a gold Handle and Scabbard, 
belonging to the King, made ufe of for a Badge, or Sign, 
that the Perfon who bears it is commiffioned by the King. 
After a profound Silence, he who carrried the Chappe 
welcomed me in the King’s Name, and ordered me to 
come forthwith afhore. Accordingly I made myfelf rea- 
dy, but before I could come off, I was obliged to pay the 
Officers Dues, which amounted to above eighty Rials, 
befides a great Looking-glafs for the Eunuch, and another 
for a Friend of his, and fome frnall ones for his principal 
Officers. This done, I came afhore, where the Captain 
of the EngUJh Ship invited me very kindly to Dinner, and 
to lodge in his Houfe. I accepted his Invitation to Din- 
ner, and was very handfomely entertained. After Dinner 
I went to look upon a Houfe, and offered forty Rials a 
Month for it, but could not have it under fifty-four. In 
the mean Time, the Englijh Captain complained heavily 
of the King, that he would not let them have the Pepper 
under fifty-four Rials the Bahar, tho’ thirty Rials was as 
much as it was worth. Finding that I could not fpeak 
with the King that Day, and that the King had lent his 
Chappe, twice for an Emerald I wore on my Finger, and 
would not be fatisfied with my Promife of bringing it the 
next Day, I went on Board again. 
On the firft of February I came afhore again, and by 
the Way met fome Portugueze, whom the King of Achen 
had laid in Irons, and who told me, that the Dutch and 
Englijh had a Defign to poifon me. I told them, I did not 
believe the Englijh would do me any harm j however, T 
would be upon my Guard. They replied, that if I went 
to dine with the Englijh Captain that Day, I would never 
return, and very affe&ionately begged me to avoid it, be- 
came they had no Hopes of being delivered from ffieir 
Captivity, but through my Means. But after all, purfu- 
ant to my Promife, I went and dined with the EngUJh 
Captain, Mr. Roberts, who treated me very kindly and 
handfomely, and gave me nothing to eat or drink but 
what he and the reft of his Company took Part of. Af- 
ter Dinner the Kings Officers came for the Emerald, 
which I gave them, and told me, I could not fpeak with 
the King till the Day after. Then confidering that I was 
trouble fome to the Englijh Captain, and that it was not 
my Intereft to lodge with him, I agreed to give fifty Rials 
a Month for a Houfe. 
On the fecond I was taken with a violent Loofeneis 
and Vomiting, and being apprehenfive of what the Portu- 
gueze had told me, took fome Maldiva Cocoas, with Be- 
zoar, which in that Country are reckoned a fovereign 
Counter-poifon. Next Day I went afhore, where I met 
with bad News, viz. that the Dutch and Englijh had ta- 
ken the Hope off of Bantam, and fhared the Cargoe, and 
murdered moft of the Men, and that they would do as 
much to me if they were able. This Difcovery came 
from a Dutchman, who being difobliged by his Countrymen, 
had taken Protection under us and lodged in one Apartment 
of the Houfe I had taken. I was unwilling to take this Man 
on Board, by reafon that in a former Voyage I was chal- 
lenged at Bantam for having Dutchmen on Board, and thofe 
I had, who were the moft ufeful and neceffary Officers in 
my Ship, were taken from me ; but after all, finding that 
the Fellow was ready to turn Moor, and that he fpoke the 
Language of the Country naturally, and might be ufe- 
ful to me as an Interpreter, I told him, if he would lie 
clofe, without giving any Notice to the Dutch, or Englijh , 
till I was ready to fail, I would do my utmoft to convey 
him on Board ; for Pedro, the Englifh Interpreter whom I 
had brought from Ficow , had then left my Service, being 
checked and threatened by the Englijh Fadlor for enter- 
ing into it, and hated by the King’s Officers, who upon 
my fempling at firft to pay the Duties, thought he had 
fuggefted to me fomething to their Difadvantage. 
In the mean Time, one of our Men, that had been 
drinking with the Englijh Seamen, pumped out of them, 
that their Ship, in Company with the Dutch Ship, had gi- 
ven Chafe, in the Straight of Sonda, to a Veffel which they 
took to be French , and the Dutchmen falling behind, was 
mad that he could not come up with her, but their Ship 
being the better Sailor, made up to them, and found it 
was an Englijh Veffel, upon which they left her; that be- 
fore I came into the Road, they hearing I had not twenty 
found Men, had a Defign to take me ; but finding, upon 
my Arrival, that I was fo flrong, they dropped their 
Defign. 
The Englijh Captain told me, that the Dutch Admiral 
affumed the Authority of King of Jacatra , and ffiewed 
me a fort of Money, half Silver, half Copper, that he 
had coined in that Country, bearing on one Side a Lion 
with a Hanger in one Hand, and Arrows in the other, 
and on the Reverfe Frajettum , in Roman Letters, with 
the Date of the Year underneath. The fourth I kept on 
Board, and received Advice from the Shore, that a Draught 
was a brewing for me in the Englijh Ship. The fixth I 
was invited to Dinner on Board the Englijh Ship, where 
Reifemhrant the Dutch Faclor was to be prefent. I return- 
ed Thanks for all their Civilities, and promifed to wait upon 
them, if I was not obliged to go afhore to an Interview of 
the King, or if I was, to fend Captain Riddle to fupply my 
Place ; next Morning I went afhore betimes, and lent my 
Excufe to the Englijh by Captain Riddle, whom I acquaint- 
ed with the Reafon of my Abfence, and cautioned him to 
be upon his Guard. 
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