Book I. 
844 The Conciujion of the Travels through India, 
Cinnamon and Elephants. As for his Cinnamon, he has 
no Profit fince the Poriugueze coming into'the Eaft-Indies % 
and for his Elephants, he makes but little of them, for they 
take not above five or fix in a Year ; but they are more 
efteemed than any other Country Elephants, as being the 
moft couragious in War. One thing I will tell you hardly 
to be believed, but that which is a certain Truth, which is, 
that when any other King or Rajah has one of thefe Ele- 
phants of Ceylon , if they bring themamong any other Breed 
in any other Place whatever, fo foon as the other Elephants 
behold the Ceylon Elephants, by an Inftin&of Nature, they 
do them Reverence, by laying their Trunks upon the 
Ground, and raifmg them up again. 
The King of Achen , with whom the Butch alfo broke 
their Word, had more Opportunity to be revenged upon 
them than the King of Candy ; for he denied them the 
Tranfportation of Pepper out of his Country, without 
which their Trade was worth little •, his Pepper being that 
which is moft coveted thro’ the Eaft, fo that they were forced 
to make a Compofition with him. The King of Achen ' s 
Embaffador coming to Batavia, was ftrangely furprized to 
fee Women fitting at a Table •, but much more, when after 
a Health drank to the Queen of Achen the General of 
Batavia commanded his Wife to go and kifs the Embaffa- 
dor. Nor was the King behind-hand with the Butch Em- 
baflador another Way, whom the King beholding in a lan- 
guifhing Diftemper, afked him, whether he had never any 
Familiarity with any of the Natives ? Yes, replied the Em- 
baffador however, I left her to marry in my own Coun- 
try : Upon that the King commanded three of his Phyfi- 
cians to cure him in fifteen Days, upon the Forfeiture of 
their Lives. Thereupon they gave him a certain Potion 
every Morning, and a little Pill at Night *, and at the End 
of nine Days he took a great Vomit ^ every body thought 
he would have died with the working of it ; but at length 
it brought up a Stopple of coarfe Flair as big as a Nut, 
after which he prefently recovered. At his Departure the 
King gave him a Flint, about the Bignefs of a Goofe-Egg, 
with Veins of Gold in it, like the Veins of a Man’s Hand, 
as the Gold grows in that Country. 
5. On the 25th of May we fet fail from Ponte Galle. 
The fecond of June we paffed the Line. The fixth we 
faw the Eland called Nazacas. The 17th we difcovered 
the Coaft of Sumatra. The eighteenth the Eland of In- 
gamina \ and the nineteenth the Eland For tuna. The 
twentieth we were in ken of certain little Elands on the Coaft 
of Java , among which Elands there are three called the 
Iflands of the Prince. The twenty-firft we difcovered Ban- 
tam ■, and the twenty-fecond we anchored in the Road of 
Batavia. There are two Councils in Batavia , the Council 
of the Court, where the General prefides, and where all the 
Affairs of the Company are managed : The other, which 
is held in a Houfe in the City, and relates to Civil Govern- 
ment, and decides the petty Differences among the Citi- 
zens. All the Kindnefs I had fhewn me here, was to be 
profecuted by the City Council, for being fufpedted to have 
bought a Parcel of Diamonds for Morifieur Conftant , my 
very good Friend, and Prefident of the Butch Factory at 
Gambron ; but when they could make nothing of it, they 
ceafed their Suit, aftiamed of what they had done. 
6 . Being fo ill treated at Batavia , I refolved to vifit the 
King of Bantam •, to which purpofe I took my own Brother 
along with me, becaufe he Ipoke the Malayan Language, 
which in the Eaft is as univerfal as Latin among us. Being 
arrived at Bantam , in a fmall Bark, which we hired for 
ourfelves, we went firft and vifited the Englijh Prefident, 
who kindly entertained and lodged us. The next Day 1 
fent my Brother to the Palace, to know when it would be 
feafonable for me to kifs the King 8 s Hands. When the 
King faw him (for he was well known unto him) he would 
not fuffer him to return, but fent Orders to fetch me, and 
to tell me withal, that if I had any rare Jewels, I fhould 
do him a Kindnefs to bring them along with me. 
When I faw my Brother returned not with the Perfons 
which the King fent, I was almoft in the mind not to have 
gone, remembering how the King of Achen had ferved the 
Sieur Renaud ; for the French having fet up an Eajl-India 
Company, fent away four Veffels, three great ones, and 
one of eight Guns, for the Service of the Corfipany. Their 
Voyage was the fhortefl that ever was heard of, arriving at 
Bantam in lefs than four Months. The King alfo courte- 
oufly received" them, and let them have as much Pepper 
as they defired, and cheaper by twenty in a hundred than 
he fold it to the Butch ; but the French not coming only 
for Pepper, fent away the fmall Ship, with the greateft Part 
of their Money to Macajfar , to try the Market for Cloves, 
Nutmegs, and Mace. The French being fo foon difpatched 
at Bantam, had not Patience to ftay till the Return of the 
fmall Veffel which they had fent to Macajfar 5 but to pafs 
the Time, muft needs run oyer to Batavia , being not above 
fourteen Leagues off ; fo that you may be at Batavia from 
Bantam in a Tide, with a good Wind. 
When they came to an Anchor, the General of the French 
Fleet fent to complement the General of Batavia, who 
failed not to anfwer his Civility, and invited the Admiral 
a (Fore. Moreover, he fent to thofe that ftayed aboard great 
Store of excellent Cheer, and a good Quantity of SDaniJh 
and Rhenijh Wine, with a particular Order to them that car- 
ried it, to make the French drunk. His Order was fo well 
followed, that it was eafy to fet the Ships on Fire. Ac- 
cording to the private Inftrudions which they had, fo foon 
as the Flame was difcovered from the General’s Window, 
which overlooked all the Road, there was a wonderful pre- 
tended Aftonifhment amongft the Butch ; but the French 
Admiral, too truly conjecturing the Ground and Authors 
of the Treachery, beholding the Company with an un- 
daunted Courage, Come, come, cried he, lets drink on ; 
they that fet the Ships on Fire fhall pay for them. How- 
ever, the French Ships were all burnt, though the Men 
were all faved in Boats, which were fent forthwith to their 
Relief. After that the General of Batavia made them great 
Offers, which they refufed, and returned to Batavia , in 
Expectation of their fmall Veffel. When it returned, they 
could find out no better Way than to fell Ship, Goods and 
all, to the Englijh, and to Ihare the Money among them- 
felves, every one according to their Condition. 
7. But the Trick which they put upon the Englijh was far 
more bloody. The Englijh were the firft that found out 
the Danger of failing from Surat, Majlipatan, or any other 
diftant Parts to Japan, without touching by the Way: 
Whereupon they thought it convenient to build a Fort in 
the Eland of Formofa , which not only faved the Lofs of 
feveral Veffels, but alfo brought them in great Gain. The 
Butch, mad that the Englijh were poffeffed of fuch an ad- 
vantagious Situation, being the only Place in all the Eland 
where Veffels could ride with Safety, and finding they 
could not carry it by Force, bethought them of a Strata- 
gem, to which Purpofe they fent away two Ships, wherein 
they ftored the belt of their Soldiers, who pretending they 
had been in a Storm at Sea, put into the Harbour of For- y 
mofa, with fome of their Mails by the Board, their Sails 
fcattered, and their Seamen feemingly fick. 
The Englifo , compaffionating their Miferies, which was 
only in outward Appearance, invited the chief of them to 
come on Shore to refrefh. themfelves, which they were 
ready to do, carrying as many Men as poffible they could, 
under Pretence of Sicknefs. While the chief of them were 
at Dinner with the chief of the Englijh , they all plied their 
Cups, and when the cruel Butch faw that the Englijh had 
draifk hard enough, taking their Opportunity, they picked 
a Quarrel with the Commander of the Fort, and drawing 
their Swords, which they had hidden under their Coats for 
that Purpofe, they eafily furprized, and cut the Throats of 
all the Soldiers in the Garriion ; and being thus Matters of 
the Fort, they kept it from that Time, till they were 
routed out by the Chinefe. 
8. Now for the Trick that the King of Achen ferved the 
Sieur Renaud , he having got a good Eftate by Jewels, ar- 
rived at length at Achen, and as it is the Cuftom for the 
Merchants to fhew the King what Jewels they have, the 
King had no fooner call his Eye upon four Rings which 
the Sieur Renaud fhewed him, but he bid him fifteen thou- 
fand Crowns for them, but Renaud would not bate of 
eighteen thoufand. Now, becaufe they could not agree, 
the Sieur Renaud carried them away with him, which very 
much difpleafed the King ; however, he fent for him the 
next Day, whereupon Renaud returning to him, the King 
paid him his eighteen thoufand Crowns ; but he was never 
feen 
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