Chap. II. 
A V E R N I E 
Trade which the Jefuits drove in Macao and to the King- 
dom of MacaJJar , whither, upon their own Account, 
they ient feveral Veffels, laden with all forts of Commo- 
dities, as well of India as China . They took this Oppor- 
tunity, and on the 7th of June , 1660, appeared with a 
Fleet of thirty Sail before the Port of MacaJJar. 
The King, thinking himfelf obliged to make Defence 
againft fo potent an Enemy, endeavoured to fuftain the 
Brunt of the Dutch, with the Portuguese Ships in the 
Road but the Dutch dividing their Fleet, Part of them 
fought the Portuguese , the other battered the Royal For- 
trefs fo furioufly, that they carried it in a fhort Time, 
which fo terrified the King, that he commanded the Por- 
tuguese not to fire any more for fear of farther provoking 
his Enemies. -The Prince Patinjaha was Fain /in the 
Fight, which was a great Lofs to the King of MacaJJar , 
who was become formidable to his Neighbours, by the 
vood Conduct of that Minilter. As for the Dutch , 
they took, burnt, and funk all the Portuguese Vefiels, and 
fufficiently reimburfed themfelves for their Chinefe Expences. 
The Thirteenth of June the King of MacaJJar, whofe 
Name was Sumbow , hung out a white Flag from another 
Tower, whence he beheld the Fight, environed by his 
Wives. During the Truce, he fent one of the Grandees of 
his Court to the Dutch Admiral, to defire Peace ; which 
was granted, upon Condition, he. jfhould fend an Embai- 
fador to Batavia, expel the Portuguese, out of the Ifiand, 
and not to permit his Subjects to have any more to do with 
them. 
Thereupon the King of MacaJJar fent eleven of the 
o-reateft Lords of his Court, with a Train of feven hun- 
dren Men *, the Chief of the Embaffy being the Prince of 
Pitifaloa. The firft Thing they did, was to pay two 
hundred Loves of Gold to redeem the Royal Fortrefs 
again, and the next, fubmitting to the Conditions which the 
Dutch Admiral had propofed. The General of Batavia 
fio-ned the Articles, which were punctually obferved ; for 
the Portuguese immediately quitted the Country, fome 
departing for Siam and Cambay a, others for Macao and 
Goa. Macao, formerly one of the moft famous and rich- 
eft Cities of the Orient, was the principal Motive that 
inclined the Dutch ' t o fend an EmbaiTador into China. for, 
bein°- the bed Station which the Portuguese had in all 
thefe Parts, the Dutch had a Defign to win it wholly 
now. This City lying in ,22° of N. Lat. in a final! Ifiand, 
next to the Province of Canton, which is a Part of China, 
has very much loft its former Luftre. 
3. But this was not all which the Jefuits and Portuguese 
Merchants buffered. The Chief of the Dutch Factory at 
Mingrela, which is but eight Leagues from this City, un- 
derft anding the bad Succefs of the Dutch in China, had a 
Contrivance by himfelf to be revenged : He heard that 
the jefuits' of Goa , and other Places, drove a great 
Trade in rough Diamonds, which they fent into Eu- 
rope, or elfe carried along with them when they re- 
turned •, and that for the more private carrying on of 
their Trade, they were wont to fend one or two of their 
Order, that knew the Language, in the Habit of Faquirs , 
which confifts of a Tyger’s Skin, to cover their back Parts, 
and a Goat’s Skin to cover their Bread, reaching down to 
the Knees. Thereupon the Chief of the Factory of Min- 
grela, taking this Opportunity, and having Notice that 
two of the iuppofed Farquirs were gone to the Mines, 
•to lay out 400,000 Pardos in Diamonds, gave Orders to 
two Men, which he had bribed for that Purpofe, that as 
foon as the Fathers had made their Purchale, he fhould 
give Notice to the Officer of the Cuftom-houfe at Bicholi , 
which is a great T own on the Frontiers of thofe Lands 
that part the Kingdom of Vifiapour from the Territories 
of the Portuguese, there being no other Way to pafs the 
River which encompaffes the Ifiand where the City of 
Goa is built. The Fathers believing that the Cuftomer 
knew nothing of their Purchafe, went into the Boat to go 
over the River ; but, as foon as they were in, they were 
ftridtly fearched, ' and all the Diamonds confifcated. 
To return to the King of MacaJJar. You mull know 
that the Jefuits once offered to convert him, and perhaps 
they might have brought it to pals, had they not ne- 
glected one - Propofal which he made them' •, for, at the 
fame time the jefuits laboured to bring him to Chriftia- 
nity, the. Mohammedans' .tried- "all their Endeavours, to 
oblige him to take up with their Law: The King, willing to 
leave his Idolatry, yet, not knowing what Part to. take, 
commanded the Mohammedans x o fend for two or three of 
their moft able Moullas, or Debtors, from Mecca ; and the. 
Jefuits he ordered to fend as many of the moft Learned 
among them, that he might be inftructed in both Religi- 
ons, which they both prom ifed to do : But t ht- Mohamme- 
dans were more diligent than the Chriftians ; for in eight 
Months, they fetched from Mecca two learned Moullas 1 
whereupon, the King feeing that the Jefuits fent no body, 
to him, embraced the Mohammedan Lav/. True it is,-, 
that three Years after, there came ; .thrqe. Portuguese .je- 
fuits., but then it was too late, The King of 'MacaJJar 
being thus become a Mohammedan * the Prince, his Bro- 
ther, was fo mad at it, that when the Mofque, which the 
King had can fed to be built, was finifhed, he got into it 
one Night, and canfing the Throats of two Pigs to be 
cut, he all befmeared the Walls of the new Mofques, 
and the Place which was appointed for the Moulla to 
perform divine Service, with the Blood •, To that the King 
was forced to pull down that, and build another. After 
which the Prince, with fome idolatrous Lords, itole out or. 
the Ifiand, and never fince appeared at Court. 
4. I departed from Mingrela, a great Town in the 
Kingdom of Vifiapour , eight Leagues from Goa, the 14th 
of April, 1648, and embarked in a Dutch Vdfel bound 
for Batavia. The Ship had Orders to touch at Bokanoui\ 
to take in Rice •, whereupon I .went afhore with tire Cap- 
tain, to obtain Leave of the King to buy Rice : We 
found him upon the Shore, where he had about a Dozen 
Huts to fet up, which were covered with Palm- Leaves. 
In his own Flut there was a Piece of Tapeftry fpread un- 
der him and there we law five or fix Women, fome fan- 
ning him with Peacock-Feathers, others giving him Bee- 
tel, others filling him his Pipes with Tobacco. 
The . moft confiderable Perfons in the Country were in 
the other Pluts •, and we counted about two hundred Men 
that were upon the Guard, armed only with Bows and Am 
rows : They had alfo two Elephants among them. ’Tis very 
probable that his Palace was not far off, and that he only 
came thither to take the freih Air. There we were pre- 
fented with Tari, or Palm-wine, but very new, and not 
boiled : It caufed the Head-ach in all that drank it, info- 
much that we were two Days before we could recover it. 
I afleed the Reafon why the Wine came to do us fo much. 
Prejudice •, to which they anfwered me, that it was plant- 
ing Pepper about the Palm-trees that gave fuch a Strength 
to the Wine. 
We were no fooner got aboard, but a mighty Tenrpeft. 
arofe, wherein the Ship, Men, and Goods, had all like to have 
been caft away, being near the Shore ; but, at length, the 
Wind changing, we found ourfelves, by the Break of Day* 
three or four Leagues at Sea, having loft all our Anchors •„ 
and, at length, came fafe to Port in the Haven of Ponte 
de Galle, the Twelfth of May. I found nothing remark- 
able in that City, there being nothing but the Ruins made 
by the Underminings and Cannon-Shot, when the Dutch 
befieged it, and chafed the Portuguese from thence. 
The Company allowed Ground to build upon, to them 
that would inhabit there, and Land to till •, and had then 
railed two Bulwarks, which commanded the Port. If 
they have finifhed their Defign which they- undrtook, the 
Place cannot but be very Confiderable. The Dutch had 
made an Agreement with the King of Candy, that he 
fhould be always ready, with twenty thoufand Men, to. 
to keep the Paffages that hinder the Portuguese from bring- 
ing any Succours from Colombo, Negombo, Planar, or 
any other Places, which they poffefTed upon the Coaft : 
In Confideration whereof, the Dutch , when they had ta- 
ken Ponte de Galle , was to reft ore it to the King of Candy 
which, they not performing, the King fent to know why 
they did not give him Pofleffion of the Town ; to which 
they returned Anfwer, that they were ready to do it, 
provided he could defray the Expences of the War. 
But they knew, that if he had three Kingdoms more* 
fuch as his own, he could never have paid lb great a 
Sum. I muft confefs, indeed, the Country is very poor, 
for, I dp not believe that the King ever faw fifty thou- 
fand Crowns together in his Life, his Trade being all in 
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