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Prize, and if they met with me, they could ferve me the 
fame way. Some few Days after this they met another 
Dutch Ship that had a great many fick aboard, and was 
going to put them on Shore on the Ille of NaJJaw. Captain 
Grave defired his Men might likewife be fet afhore at the 
lame Place for the Recovery of their Health, which indeed 
they did, but with fo much Cruelty, that one would think 
that Nation had neither Humanity, Religion, or Confci- 
ence ; for they threw the fick Men like lo many Logs of 
Wood out of the Ship into the Boat, and fome they drag- 
ged through the Water with a Rope fattened to them, par- 
ticularly one, who being fo dragged, expired immediately 
upon the Rocks on the Shore. In the mean time the 
Commiffary of the Leyden being fenfible of his Crime, told 
Captain Grave they were miftaken, and that upon a Re- 
view of his Commiffion he found he had no Authority to 
take any French Ship, fo that he was at liberty to return to 
his own Ship. 
Captain Grave confidering that he Hood in need of their 
Affiftance, anfwered with a great deal of Complaifance, that 
the Commiffary was not the firft who had been miftaken 
in Matters of as great Confequence, and defired he might 
have fome of their Seamen to man his Ship •, the Commif- 
fary granted his Requeft, upon a Provifo that the Captain 
fhould forget what had palled, and give fomething to that 
Effedl under his Hand. Captain Grave receiving this Re- 
inforcement, went on Board of his own Ship ; but the 
Dutch Seamen threatened every Day to throw him and his 
Crew over-board, and he believed they had certainly done 
it, if the other Dutch Ship, called the Horn, had not been 
in Company : Sometime after they fell in with three Dutch 
Ships near Selibar upon the Coaft of Sumatra , one of 
which having a Flag upon its Mali like an Admiral Ship, 
Captain Grave went on Board of her ; but as foon as Cap- 
tain Grave was on Board, that Admiral’s Ship fired upon 
his Ship, in order to make them take down their French 
Colours ; upon which the Captain fent back his Boat with 
Orders to take them dowm 
This done, they failed all together for Jacatra , where 
they arrived in December , and Captain Grave went to wait 
upon the Dutch Admiral, and defired he would affift him 
with fome Seamen to condudt his Ship to Bantam , purfti- 
ant to his Commiffion. The Admiral promifed to affift 
him, and to allow him to go to Bantam, provided he would 
there buy up- all the Pepper he could get at a limited Price, 
viz. two Rials a Sack, and diftribute two-thirds of it to the 
Dutch and Englijh in that Road. The Captain confidering 
his miferable Condition, was forced to fubmit, and fign an 
Obligation of buying fifteen thoufand Sacks of Pepper, five 
thoufand of which fhould be given to the Dutch, and five 
thoufand to the Englijh. In the mean time the Pinnace I 
had fent in queft of him arrived at Jacatra, but the Bar- 
gain being ftruck before its Arrival, Captain Grave was 
obliged to go to Bantam : Accordingly he went, and ar- 
rived there the End of January , where the King gave him 
a welcome Reception, but would fell him no Pepper under 
four Rials a Bag. 
In the mean Time, the Dutch , contrary to their Pro- 
mife, fent out armed Barks up and down Bantam Road, 
in Purfuit of the Javanefe , within Cannon-Shot of their 
Walls, returned always on Board our Ship the Hope, in 
order to make thofe of Bantam believe, that the French 
gave fhelter to their mortal Enemies. Plowever, the King 
of Bantam refented it no otnerwife than by keeping the 
Pepper at the firft Price-, upon which Captaain Graves re- 
iolved to take it at the current Price, and when he had 
got his Lading, to return' to France, he offered Part of 
what he had got to the Dutch, but they would not 
have it at that Price : The Englijh * indeed, took 1 50 
Bags of him, but never paid for it. The Dutch and En- 
glijh paying him no Money, he had not enough to pay the 
King of Bantam for the 1 5000 Bags he had bargained for, 
and therefore defired he would let him have only 2000 
Bags more but the King refufed to let him have any, un- 
lefs he would take all that he had bargained for. 
At laft the Commiffary of St. Malo’s Company at Ban- 
tam fupplied him with as much as would compleat his 
Loading, taking the Hermitage Advice-Boat as a Pledge 
for 1500 Rials in Part' of Payment., This done, he re- 
of Commodore Beaulieu Book I. 
folved to return diredly for France , but three Ships that 
lay juft by him commanded him to go to Jacatra % ac- 
cordingly he went, and was there ordered to unlade two 
Thirds of his Cargo, and notwithftanding that he fhewed 
Letters under the Dutch Prefident’s Hand , importing, 
that they would not ftand to the firft Bargain, yet they ar- 
retted the Captain on Shore, and made ieven or eight of 
their Ships ride at Anchor round the Hope , and beo-an 
to unload the Pepper themfelves, tho* none of Captain 
Grave’s, Crew put their Hands to it. In the mean Time 
Captain Grave entered a Proteft againft the Injuftice of 
the Dutch, declaring, that all Damages iffiiing from that 
Aftion Mould be put to their Account. Soon after, in a 
very dark Night, a Praw was feen to come from the Place 
where the Dutch Ships lay at Anchor, and to make ujp 
to the Stern of the Hope , near which it continued for a lit- 
tle Time, and after that putting off, one of their Men cri- 
ed out in the Malayan Language, that the Hope was on 
Fire ; immediately the Dutch Ships were feen under Sail, 
having weighed Anchor before, which was a certain Proof 
that they knew of the Defign and when the Prefident 
of Jacatra received the firft Advice that a Ship was on 
Fire in the Road, he replied, without any Concern, that 
he knew it was the French Ship. In the mean Time, the 
French Seamen finding the Fire too far advanced to be 
exftinguifhed, came off in the Long-Boat, and abandoned 
the Ship. Next Morning Captain Grave fent fix Praws 
to fave fomething in the Ship, but the Dutch kept them 
off r fo that they faved all the Pepper and Artillery, 
and put them in their own Magazines, and fold the Hulk of 
the Ship by Beat of Drum. 
This done. Captain Grave hearing I was at Achen , fee 
out for Achen in the French Commiffary at Bantam’s, Pin- 
nace, and the reft of the Men came in another Bark •, but" 
as foon as he arrived there, the Bark, and all that was in it, 
was flopped, by the King of Achen , and Captain Grave 
being taken ill, and not meeting with me there, took the 
Opportunity of returning to Jacatra by the Englijh Ships 
above-mentioned. Plaving heard this fatal Account of 
our Affairs, I fent a Boat for Captain Grave, and received 
him on Board* November the fifteenth we weighed An- 
chor, and making the Road of Achen, came to an Anchor 
among five more Ships that were in that Road, in order to 
be in a Capacity to force the King of Achen to deliver up 
my Men, if he would not do it with good Will. 
Immediately upon our Arrival, the King fent an Eu- 
nuch on Board to welcome me, and defire me to come 
afhore.. J made Anfwer, that I could not truft myfelf 
afhore, fince the King had imprifoned my Men like Rob- 
bers, and feized upon the forry Remains of a burnt Ship,, 
contrary to what might have been expected, after the Ser- 
vices offered him by the King of France, and by me m 
Particular. The Eunuch replied, that the King took them 
to be Portugueze, that had ravaged his Coafts, and as foon 
as he was undeeeived, had fet them at Liberty, and re- 
turned them their Money. That it was true, he had him 
dered them from going on Board the Englijh and Butch * 
for fear they fhould come to any harm from their mortal 
Enemies, defigning to put them into the Hands of the 
firft French Captain that fhould have arrived in that Place. 
To this I anfwered, that the French were eafily diftinguiffi- 
ed from the Portugueze, and that tho 5 I underftood the 
King had returned them fome Rials, yet he had not re- 
turned the Value of 2500 Rials he took from them, in 
Mufk, Jewels, Bezoar, Coral, and other things. The- 
Eunuch told me, the King would certainly pay that. 
But after all, I gave him to underftand, I was firmly 
refolved not to come afhore till aft my Men were on 
Board* after which, I would come and receive his Com- 
mands. Then they demanded the Duties of the King’s 
Chappe, befides 400 Rials of Anchorage for the King, 
and 2'GO for the Officers of the Alfandegue , a late Impoffi- 
tion laid upon all Ships that fhould come into that Road j 
but I told them, I did not come to traffick, and therefore 
would not pay a Farthing, Sometime after the Chappe 
returned, and brought all ray Men on Board; upon which, 
purfuant to my Promife, I went afhore, when I waited 
upon the King, who complained heavily that I did not 
come to fee him focner* and told me, that the Dutch and 
