Book L 
842, The Conclufion of the Travels through India, 
SECTION XXX 
The Coaclufton of the Remarh and Obf eruptions of Mr, J. Baptift Tavernier in his Travels 
through the Indies, together with his Account of the Dutch Settlements , and of his Foyavg 
on Board a Dutch Ship from Batavia to Europe, 
Written by himfelf foon after his Return, 
1. An Account of the Kingdom Macaffar, in the If and of Celebes. 2. The Grounds of the Quarrel between 
the King, of Macaffar, and the Dutch. 3. The Means by which the King was converted to the Moham- 
medan Religion . 4. The Author's Voyage from Mingrela to the Ifland of Ceylon, inter /per fed with various 
Remarks . 5. The Author' s Departure from Ceylon, and his Arrival at Batavia. 6. The ill Ufage the 
French meet with from the Dutch in the Eaft-Indies. 7. An Inflance of their Re /peel likewife for the 
Englifh. 8. The Author goes to vift the King of Bantam, in order to fell him feme Diamonds . 9. A De- 
feription of that Monarch's Palace , and op' the Reception our Author met with there . 10. His Return to 
Batavia, and his Obfervations in that City . n. His narrow Efcape in his fecond Journey to Bantam prom 
a Mohammedan Monk that intended to afl affiliate him. 12. A diflinct and impartial Account of the Grounds 
of the long War between the Dutch and the Emperor of Java. 13. Our Author meets with ?iew Troubles 
at Batavia. 14. He embarks there on Board a Dutch Kegel, in order to return to Europe. 1 3. Arrival 
at, and our Author's Obfervations on the Country near the Cape of Good-Hope. 16. His Remarks upon 
the Ifland of St. Helena, which they touched at in their Paflage . 17. Return to Holland, and bafe Ufage 
by the Dutch. 
1 ‘ "IT 7 E ^ ave before given a large Account of our 
\f\j Author’s Obfervations on the Kingdoms in 
▼ ▼ the Eaft-Indies to the very Frontiers of China , 
of which Empire, it feems, he had likewife collected fome 
very curious Memoirs, though his Modcfty would not fuffer 
him to publifh them, becaufe there were already feveral 
general Hiftories of that Country written by fuch as had 
refided there for many Years, and were therefore likely to 
be better acquainted with it than he. In order, however, 
to preferve the beft Method polfible in his Relations, he 
paffes from the Kingdom of Siam, on the Continent, to the 
great Ifland of Celebes , of which he has given us a very 
copious and very curious Account, much fuperior to any 
thing we meet with in the general Hiftories of the Indies 
by Portuguese Writers, and therefore it comes in here very 
properly, as a Supplement to what we have before tranf- 
cribed from thole Writers in the former Seditions, and at 
the fame time ferves for an Introduction to what the Author 
fays of the Reduction of that Hand, or at leaft of the prin- 
cipal Kingdom therein by the Butch, who are ftill Matters 
thereof, and derive from thence very great Advantages. 
We may reckon amongft thefe their excluding all other 
Nations from any Commerce here. But to proceed now to 
our Author’s Narration, in his own Words. 
The Kingdom of Mac after, which is in the Ifle of Ce- 
lebes, begins at the 15 0 of Southern Latitude; the Heats are 
exceffive all the Day, but the Nights are temperate enough ; 
and for the Soil, it is very fertile ; but the People have not 
the Art of Building. The capital City bears the Name of 
the Kingdom, and is fituated upon the Sea. The Port is 
free ; for the Veffels that bring great Quantities of Goods 
from the adjacent Elands pay no Cuftoms. The Iflanders 
have a Cuftom to poifon their Arrows; and the moft dan- 
gerous Poifon which they ufe is the Juice of certain Trees, 
in the Ifland of Borneo , which they will temper fo as to 
work fwift or flow, as they pleafe. They hold, that the 
King has only the fecret Receipt to take away the Force of 
it, who boafts that he has the moft effectual Poiion in the 
World, which there is no Remedy can prevent. 
One Day an Englijhman , in the Heat of Blood, had 
killed one of the King of MacafaP s Subjects, and though 
the King had pardoned him, yet both Englifh, Hollanders , 
and Portugueze feared, if the Englijhman ihould go un- 
pun iihed, left the Iflanders ftiould revenge themfelves upon 
fame of them, befought the King to put him to Death, 
which with much ado being confented to, the King, un- 
willing to put, him to a lingering Death, and defirous to 
lliew the Effect of his Poifons, refolved to ftioot the Cri- 
minal, himfelf; whereupon he took a long Trunk and fhot 
him exactly into the great Toe of the right Foot, the Place 
parriculaBy.. aimed at. Two. Surgeons, one an Englijhman % 
and the other a Dutchman, provided on purpofe, immedi- 
ately cut off the Member; but for all that the Poifon had 
difperfed itfelf fo fpeedily, that the Englijhman died at the 
fame time. All the Kings and Princes of the Eaft are very 
diligent in their Enquiry after flrong Poifons ; and Ire- 
member, that the Chief of the Butch Factory and I tried 
feveral poifoned Arrows, with which the King of Achcn 
had prefented him, by fhooting at Squirrels, who fell down 
dead as foon as ever they were touched. 
The King of Macaffar is a Mohammedan, and will not 
fuffer his Subjects to embrace Christianity ; yet, in the 
Year 1656, the Chriftians found a Way to get Leave to 
build a fair Church in Macaffar ; but the next Year the 
King caufed it to be pulled down, as alfo that of the Do- 
minican Friars, which the Portugueze made ufe of. The 
Parifh-Church, which was under the Government of the 
Secular Priefts, flood ftill till the Butch attacked Mac of- 
fer, and compelled him to turn all the Portugueze out of 
his Dominions. The ill Conclua of that Prince was, in 
part, the Occafion of that War to which the Butch were 
moved to revenge themfelves upon the' Portiigueze Jefuits, 
who had crofted their Embaffy to China : Befides that, 
they offered great Affronts to the Dutch at Macaffar , es- 
pecially when they trod under Foot the Hat of one of the 
Butch Envoys, who was lent to treat with the King in 
Behalf of the Company. Thereupon the Butch refoTved 
to unite their Forces with the Macafdrians that were in 
Rebellion againft their Sovereign, and fo revenge them- 
felves at any Rate. 
2. Now, as to the Bufinefs of China , it happened thus ; 
towards the End of the Year 165^, the General of Bata- 
via and his Council, fent one of tihe Chief of the Butch 
Company with Prefents to the King of China , who, arriv- 
ing at Court, laboured to obtain the Friendfhip of the 
Mandarins, who are the Nobility of the Kingdom ; but 
the Jefuits, by reafon of their long Abode in the Coun- 
try, underftood the Language, and were acquainted with 
the Lords of the Court, left the Butch Company fhould 
get Footing to the Prejudice of the Portugueze , repre- 
fentecl feveral Things to the King’s Council, to the Detri- 
ment of the Butch , more efpecially charging them with 
Breach of Faith in all the Places where they came. 
Upon this, the Butch Agent was difmiffed, and de- 
parted out of China without doing any Good. After- 
wards, coming to underftand what a Trick the Portugueze 
Jefuits had put upon him, he made Report thereof to the 
Governor and his Council at Batavia , which fo incenfed 
them, that they refolved to be revenged ; for, by the De- 
puty’s Account, the Embaflay had coft them above fifty 
thoufand Crowns ; for which they confulted how to make 
the Portugueze pay double. Underftanding therefore the 
Trade 
