'742. The EXP EDITION of Commodore Beaulieu Book I„ 
in the midft of a great Valley, that is fix Leagues broad. 
The Soil is very proper for all forts of Grain and Fruit, but 
the Inhabitants fow nothing but Rice, which is their prin- 
cipal Food, together with Cocoas, with which the Ifland 
abounds. 
This Place is well ftored with Fruit-Trees, which bear 
in their proper Seafons, for there is not a Month in the 
Year without fome ripe Fruit here. They fow no Pulfe 
or Pot-Herbs, but they have excellent Pafturage, and A- 
bundance of Buffaloes, which they employ in manuring 
the Ground, and in drawing, or carrying. They have 
Plenty of young Kids, and Horfes of a fmall Breed, but 
their Sheep are good for nothing. The Peafants breed up 
great Number of Hens and Ducks, in order to fell their 
Eggs. Hunting is a Sport they are much accuftomed to, 
for they have an infinite Number of wild Boars, tho’ not 
fo large and furious as they are in France , and their Stags 
and Does are larger than ours. They have but few Hares 
or Roebucks, but in the Woods, and at the Foot of great 
Mountains there are Numbers of wild Elephants. Upon 
the uninhabited Mountains and Hills there are great 
Numbers of Tygers, fome Rinoceroes, Porcupines, wild 
Buffaloes, Civet Cats, wild Cats, Monkies, Adders, large 
Lizards, and in fome Rivers poifonous Crocodiles. 
The better Half of this Ifland is poffeffed by the King 
of Achen. If you go along the Coaft to the Eaftward of 
Achen , about 1 2 Leagues from it you meet with Pedir , 
a large and populous City, and after that Pacem and Bely > 
about twelve Leagues to the Weft ward of Achen lies Bay a, 
a confiderable City, and then the King of Achen\ late Con- 
quefts, viz. Labo , Cinquel , Barr os, Bat ham, PaJJaman , Pi cow, 
Priam an , and Padang'', the other half of the Ifland is pof- 
feffed by five or fix Kings, who tho’ they are Lords of 
very good Countries, yet if you put them altogether, they 
are not fo confiderable as the King of Achen. Upon the 
Eaft-fide, near the Equinodtial, lies the little Kingdom 'of 
Andrigri , and beyond that Jambi , the richeft of them all, 
and a little farther Palimbac. T o the W eft ward of Padang 
lies the Kingdom of Manimcabo , and beyond that AndrP 
poura. The reft of the Coaft extending to the Streights 
of Sunda , is woody and uninhabited ; that Part of the Coaft 
that faces thofe Straights is fubjed: to the King of Bantam. 
Thus you have an Account of the whole Coaft of Su- 
matra, the Inhabitants of which are Malayans, fo that 
they all underftand the Malayan Language. The inland 
Parts of this Ifland is inhabited by Aborigenes that fpeak a 
different Language from the Malayans, and are under the 
Government of feveral petty Kings, of which the richeft 
and moft powerful is one that refides between Picow and 
Manimcabo, as being poffeffed of all the Places where the 
Gold of this Ifland lies. 
It is very certain, there is a great deal of Gold to be 
found in this Ifland, but the Inhabitants are altogether ig- 
norant of working of Mines, and what they gather, is 
only in Torrents and little Ditches, that they dig in the 
Places where the Floods difcharge themfelves. This Gold 
.the Natives truck with the Inhabitants of Manimcabo for 
Rice, Arms, and Cotton Cloth, and with thofe of Pria- 
man for Pepper, Salt, Surat Cloth, and Mufilipatan Steel. 
picow , and the other Kingdoms they have but little Com- 
merce with. As for Strangers, they have no Dealings with 
them, but murder and eat them where-ever they catch 
them, as well as their Enemies •, for when they are at War 
with one another, they never ranfom Prifoners, but eat 
their Flelh raw with Pepper and Salt. Tho’ they have no 
Religion, yet they have fome Polity relating to Marriage, 
Juftice, and their Duty to their King, which they obferve 
with an inviolable Refpedt. 
39. Upon the Weft Coaft of Sumatra there are a great 
many Ides, fome of them large, about eighteen or twenty 
Leagues off, and others but fmall, about three or four 
Leagues from the Continent, which do not belong to any 
of the abovementioned Kings. Thofe which are inhabited 
are poffeffed by the original Natives, whom the Malayans 
never expelled, becaufe th’efe Iflands were not for their 
Purpofe. Upon the South Side of Sumatra, in the Lati- 
tude of 5 0 lies the Ifland of Engane, inhabited by barba- 
rous Savages that fpare no body, but maffacre all that come 
upon their Shore, whether white or black. They go 
naked with long Hair, and have Canoes, in which they 
filh. Their Arms are Bows and Arrows. Upon the fame 
Coaft, in the Latitude of 3 0 30' lies a long Ifland called by 
the Butch , Naffaw, which may contain about fourteen or 
fifteen Leagues in Length, but is not inhabited $ about four 
or five Leagues from this, near the Equinoctial, we meet 
with another uninhabited Ifland about feven or eight Leagues 
long ; then we come to a great Ifland in the Latitude of 
i° 30b called Montebey , above twenty Leagues long, the 
Inhabitants of which are cloathed, and trade with thofe 
of Picow, though they fpeak a different Language. 
Under the EquinoClial there are twenty or twenty-five 
Iflands, fome great, fome fmall, fome inhabited, fome not. 
Having crofted the Line, we met with the Ifland Pulo 
Nyas in 2 0 North Latitude, which is fifteen or fixteen 
Leagues long, and inhabited by a good fort of People that 
hurt no body unlefs they be injured, and traffick with the 
People of Barros, and Strangers, to whom they fell their 
Children and Slaves. In 3 0 3c/ there are feveral other in- 
habited Iflands, many of which are covered with Palm- 
trees that bear Cocoas, which the Inhabitants of the mari- 
time Towns carry off in their Ships, and make Oil of 5 
others are covered with very high Trees, and differ much 
from thofe of Europe. 
To return from the great Ifland of Sumatra , and take a 
circumftantial View of what it produces, the Kingdom of 
Andrigri affords a confiderable Quantity of Pepper, bu£ 
very fmall. Gold is cheaper there than in any other Coun- 
try poffeffed by the Malayans. 
The Kingdom of Jamby produces a great deal of Pep- 
per, which is much better than that of Andrigri. The 
Englifh and Butch have a Fa&ory in it, as well as the For- 
tugueze of Malacca. The City, which is very unhealthy, lies 
fifty or fixty Leagues up a River, which one muft row up 
with a Boat. The Inhabitants drive a great Gold Trade, 
not only with thofe of Manimcabo , but with the Natives 
of the Country. The Kingdom of Polimban abounds in 
Rice and Cattle, and affords but little Pepper ; ’tis a plea- 
fant Country towards the Shore, and is poffeffed by the 
King of Bantam. Andripoura is feated on a rapid River 
in 3 0 30' South Latitude, and furnilhes every Year two or 
three Ships Loading of fuch Pepper as we have in Jamby . 
The Inhabitants trade likewife in Gold with thofe of Ma- 
nimcabo. Next lies that Kingdom which fhoots into the 
Country, but has fome Harbours upon the Sea-fide, par- 
ticularly Cartatinga , where the Englifh and Butch come 
often •, they have little Pepper, but a great deal of Gold, 
which is not above thirty or thirty-five per Cent, cheaper 
than in France, becaufe they deal with fo many Countries 
in that Commodity; they fell it by the Tael, of which one 
and a half makes barely two Ounces ; it is in Dull, and 
fmall Pieces, for they make but few Bars of it. 
As for the Dominions of the King of Achen the Terri- 
tories of his principal City is not fufficiently cultivated for 
maintaining the Inhabitants, fo that a great Part of their 
Rice comes from abroad. In former times it produced a 
great deal of Pepper •, but one of the Kings obferving they 
minded nothing elfe, and neglefted the manuring the 
Ground, cut down all the Pepper-Plants, fo that at pre- 
fent it does not produce every Year above five hundred 
Bahars of Pepper, and that of the fmalleft fort. Six Leagues 
from Achen, towards Pedir , there is a high Mountain that 
furnilhes great Quantities of Sulphur as well as the Ifle of 
Pcoloway in the Road of Achen, which fupplies in a manner 
all the Indies with Sulphur to make Gunpowder. The 
Territory of Pedir being very fertile in Rice, is called the 
Granary of Achen. This Place affords pretty large Quan- 
tities of yellow and hard fort of Silk, part of which is by 
the Natives made into Stuffs that are efteemed all over Su- 
matra, and the reft they fell to the Inhabitants of the Coaft 
of Coromandel. At Bely there is a Fountain of Oil which 
is faid to be unextinguilhable when once it is fet on Fire, 
and with which the King of Achen burnt two Portugueze 
Galleons near Malacca about eight or ten Years ago. 
Baya abounds in Rice and Cattle ; Cinquell affords every 
Year a large Quantity of Camphire, which the Inhabitants 
of Surat , on the Coaft of Coromandel, buy up very eagerly 
for fifteen or fixteen Rials the Catti, or twenty-eight 
Ounces. Barros is a pleafant Place feated upon a pleafant 
River, 
