846 The Conclufion of the Travels through India, Book I. 
take their Cris in their Hands, which is a kind of Poniard, 12. Having taken my Leave of the Englijh Prefident, 
the Blade whereof is half poifoned, with which they run I returned to Batavia , where, having little to do, I re- 
through the Streets, and kill all thofe that are not of the folved to give a Vifit to the King of Japara , otherwife 
. Mohammedan Law, till they are killed themfelves. called the Emperor of Java. This King was formerly 
Thefe Furies think, in lb doing, they do God and Mo- the King of all the Hand, till the King of Bantam , 
hammed good Service, and lhall be faved thereby. If any who was only Governour of a Province, rebelled ao-ainft 
of thefe Madmen be killed, the Rabble of Mohammedans 
bury them as Saints, and every one contributes towards 
making them a fair Tomb. Sometimes you lhall have an 
idle Rogue, in the Habit of a Dervich, that will build him 
a Hut near the Tomb, which he undertakes to look to, 
and few's with Flowers ; and, as his Alms increafe, he adds 
fome other Ornament to it , for the fairer and better fet out 
the Tomb is, the more devoutly it is worlhipped, and the 
more Alms it brings in, 
I remember in the Year 1642, that at Saualli , which is the 
Port of Surat , it happened, that a Veffel of the great Mogul’s 
returned from Mecca with a great Number of Faquirs or 
Derviches ; for every Year the King fends two Yelfels to carry 
and bring back the Pilgrims, who have their Paffage free, 
and when thefe Yelfels are to go, the Faquirs come from all 
Parts of India to embark. Thefe Veffels are laden with 
very good Commodities, which are fold at Mecca , and the 
Profit is diftributed among the poor Pilgrims ; but the 
Principal is brought back for the next Year, amounting to 
fix hundred thoufand Rupees at leaft. ’Tis an ill Market 
when they do not gain thirty or forty per Cent, by their 
Commodities ; nay, there are fome that produce Cent, per 
Cent, befides that the principal Perfons of the Mogul’s Ha- 
ram, and other particular Perfons, fend very large Gifts to 
Mecca. 
11. One of thefe Faquirs returning from Mecca in the 
Year 1 642, and being landed at Souali , had no fooner faid 
his Prayers, but he took his Dagger, and ran among feve- 
ral Hutch Mariners that were unlading Goods upon the 
Shore, and before they were aware, this mad Faquir had 
wounded feventeen of them, of which thirteen died. The 
Canjare, which he had in his Hand, was a kind of Dag- 
ger, the Blade whereof, towards the Handle, was three 
Fingers broad, and is a very dangerous Weapon. At 
length the Centinel that Hood at the End of the Tent, 
where the Governor and the Merchants were, Ihot him 
through the Body, fo that he fell down dead. Immedi- 
ately all the other Faquirs and Mohammedans that were upon 
the Place took up the Body, and buried it, and at the End 
of fifteen Days they put him up a fair Monument. Every 
Year the Englijh and Dutch pull it down ; but when they 
are gone the Faquirs fet it up again, and plant Banners over 
it : Nay, fome there are that perform their Devotions to 
it. But to return to the Bantam Faquir, that Villain lying, 
as I faid, behind the Pales, as my Brother, and I, and the 
Dutch Chirurgeon, came towards him, all three a-breaft, he 
thruft his Pike between the Pales, thinking to have ftabbed 
it into one of our Breads. The Dutchman being next the 
River, and fomewhat before the reft, the Head of his Pike 
ran into his Breeches ; whereupon we both laid hold of the 
Staff, but my Brother being next the Pales, prefently leaped 
over, and ran the Faquir through. 
Whereupon feveral Chinefe , and other Idolaters, came and 
gave my Brother Thanks for killing him •, after that we 
waited upon the King, and told him what my Brother had 
done, who was fo far from being dilpleafed, that he gave 
my Brother a Girdle : For, the King and his Governors are 
glad when thefe Rogues are killed, knowing them to be 
Defperadoes, not fit to live. The next Day coming to take 
my Leave of the Englijh Prefident, he fhewed me two 
Strings of Diamonds, and two Services of Silver, which 
came from England ; he would have fold them, but I only 
bought one of the Strings of Diamonds, the other being 
foul ; and for the Silver I would have bought it, had they 
coined Silver in Batavia , as they were wont to do. For- 
merly the Dutch coined Reals, Half-Reals, and Quarter- 
Reals, bearing on the one Side the Stamp of a Ship, on the 
other V . O. C. like a Character, fignifying in Dutch , for the 
Eaji- India Company, which they did for the fake of the 
Chinefe , who loving Silver better than Gold, carried away 
.ail the Silver that was coined at Batavia at good Rates •, 
but at length they left it off, finding fo few People that 
made ufe of Silver* 
him, the Dutch being made by the Divifion of thofe 
two Princes ; for when the King of Japara befieged Ba- 
tavia , the King of Bantam relieved the Dutch ; and when 
they were attacked by the King of Bantam , the King of 
Japara came to their Affiftance ; and when thofe two 
Kings were together by the Ears, the Dutch always aided 
the weakeft. The King of Japara keeps his Court in a 
City of the fame Name, diftant from Batavia about thirty 
Leagues. You may coaft along the Shore to it by Sea ; 
but the City ftands above eight Leagues up the Land. 
From the City there is a fine Walk to the Sea, where there 
is a handfome Port, and fairer Houfes than any in the City > 
and the King would live there if he thought it fafe. 
The Day before I departed, I went to take my Leave 
of one of the Indian Coufellors, and telling him that I was 
going to wait upon the King of Japara , he ftood amazed, 
in regard the King and the Dutch were mortal Enemies, of 
which he gave me this Account. The deceafed King, Fa- 
ther to the King that now reigns, fince the Dutch built 
their Fort of Batavia , would never have any Peace with 
them ; and though that, during the War, the Dutch took 
ten of his Subjects for one of theirs, and offered ten for 
one in Exchange, yet he would never exchange one upon 
any Confideradon whatfoever, and charged his Son, upon 
his Death Bed, never to releafe one. This Obftinacy ve- 
ry much troubled the Dutch General, and all the reft in 
Batavia , and obliged them how to confult Means to right 
themfelves. Now it is the Cuftom when the Mohammedan 
King dies, that his Succeffor fends certain great Lords of 
his Court to Mecca , with Prefents, as well to engage them 
to pray for the Soul of the deceafed, as alio, to give 
Thanks to God and Mohammed for the coming of a new 
King to the Throne, without any Impediment, and to 
pray for the Blefling of Victory over all his Enemies. 
But the new King and his Council were at a Lofs how to 
accomplifli this Voyage •, for, firft, the King had none 
but little Veffels, that were wont only to fail along by 
the Shore, by reafon of the Inexperience of his Seamen ; 
and, in the next Place, the Dutch were always plying to 
and fro about the Mouths of his Havens, to furprize his 
Subjects, if they ftirred out. For the Safety therefore of 
his Pilgrims, the King, at laft, concludes upon making an 
Agreement with the Englijh ; for which Reafon he dis- 
patched away an Envoy to Bantam to the Englijh Prefi- 
dent and his Council, who promifed to lend him the big- 
geft Veffel, and the beft mounted which the Company had 
in the Indies ; in lieu whereof the Englijh were to pay but 
half Culftoms for all Commodities exported or imported 
out of his Country; which Treaty being ratified, the En- 
glijh furnifhed him with three ftout Veffels mann’d and 
armed beyond an ordinary Rate. 
Thereupon nine of the principal Lords of the Court, 
and moil of the Blood Royal, with a Train of one hun- 
dred Perfons, embarked themfelves in the great Veffel. 
But all thefe Preparations could not be carried on fo private- 
but that the Dutch had Intelligence of it by their Spies. 
Thereupon the General of the Dutch makes ready three 
Ships, and lying juft in the Strait of Bantam's Mouth, fo 
foon as the Englijh came up (for they had no other Way) 
let fly at them fo roundly, that the Englijh , fearing left 
their Veffels ftiould be funk, ftruck fail; which the : Java 
Lords feeing, called them Englijh Traitors, and, drawing 
their poifoned Darts, cried a Mocca upon the Englijh , 
killing a great Number of them before they had Time to 
put themfelves into a Pofture of Defence ; and perhaps 
there would not have one of them efcaped, had not the 
Dutch come on board as they did : Some of the Java 
Lords, and about twenty of their Attendants, would take 
no Quarter, fo that the Dutch were forced to fight for it, 
and, at laft, they got the better, with the Lofs of feven 
or eight Men. 
The Engliflo Yeffel being carried into Batavia , the Ge- 
neral very civilly fent both the Prifoners and the Veffel 
. . home 
