Chap. II. during his Rejidence o, 
much Time to compleat the Obfervations he was inclined 
to make. He removed afterwards to another new Settle- 
ment at Pulo-condore , which is a fmall duller of Iflands, 
four or five ip Number, lying about fifteen Leagues South 
of the Weft Channel of the River of Cambodia , what Ad- 
vantages were propofed from this Fadlory I cannot fay ; 
but the Memoirs I have very pofitively affirm, that the 
Place, in which it was feated, was very ill chofen. 
The Perfon who had the Diredlion of the Eaft- India 
Company’s Affairs in thofe Parts v/as one Mr. Katchpole, 
and he, according to the ufual Cuftom of the Indies , took 
a certain Number of Maccajfars , or Soldiers, Natives of 
that Country, into his Service, by whofe Affiftarice he quickly 
built a little Fort for the Protection of his People, and pro- 
cured the Neceffarics of Life, fuch as Wood, Water, and 
Filh, which, as far as I could ever learn, is all that thefe 
Iflands ever afforded. The Maccajfars are a brave, indu- 
ftrious, /and faithful People, to fuch as deal well by them ; 
and for thefe Reafons they are highly efteemed in the Eaft, 
more efpecially by the Dutch. It mull, however, be al- 
lowed, that they are daring, cruel, and revengeful, if once 
they are provoked. Mr. Katchpole had contracted with 
them for three Years, at the End of which Term they 
were, if they pleafed, to receive their Wages and depart. 
This Agreement, though ftridlly performed on their Side, 
was broke by our Diredtor, who' kept them beyond their 
Time, and againft their Wills. As this was a great Breach 
in Morality,, he added to it as great an Error in Politicks ; 
for after provoking thefe People in fuch a manner, lie con- 
tinued to truft them with the Guard of his own Perfon, and 
the Cuftody of the Fadlory, which gave them an Oppor- 
tunity of revenging the ill Ufage they had endured with 
that Severity, which is natural to barbarous Minds. In 
Ihort, they rofe in the Night, and cut the Throats of the 
Director, and all that were with him in the Fadlory, not 
one efcaping. 
But fome who lodged without, hearing the Cries of thofe 
who were murdered within, fled out of their Beds to the 
Sea-fhore, where, by a very Angular Providence, they 
met with a Bark compleatly equipped, in which, tho’ half 
naked themfelves, they put to Sea, and in fo good Time, 
that they efcaped the Rage of the Maccajfars , who came 
in Search of them to the Shore juft as they weighed An- 
chor. Their Navigation was extreamly difficult, inafmuch 
as they were expofed at once to incredible Fatigue, and 
which was harder ftill to the utmoft Extremities of Hunger 
andThirft; but with much ado they compleated their tedi- 
ous Courfe of one hundred Leagues in this wretched Con- 
dition, and came at laft into a fmall Creek in the King of 
June’s Dominions, where they were civilly received, and 
kindly treated. 
v 8. A Year or two after the Eajl-India Company thought 
fit to fettle another new Factory on the Coaft of the great 
Ifland of Borneo . On the South End of this Ifland lies an- 
other fmaller one called Pulolout , which has an excellent 
Harbour. The Country, however, is but very thinly peo- 
pled, as yielding nothing but Rice ; but lying at the Mouth 
of the Rivers, coming out of the Pepper Countries, it is 
extreamly well feated for Trade. There is a Channel of 
the Sea between this Ifland and that of Borneo , about two 
Miles broad in moft Places, in fome narrower, and in fome 
wider, having from feven to five Fathom Water all the 
Way, and on the Shore there are feveral rifing Grounds 
fit to build on, which made it in the propereft Places 
in this Part of the World for a Fadlory ; and therefore 
it is to be prefumed, fuch as had the Direction of the Com- 
pany’s Affairs made Choice of it. 
One Captain Barry y a very ingenious Gentleman, had 
the Care of fettling this little Colony, in which he adled 
with much Skill and Prudence ; but before the Work was 
compleated, he died, and the Diredlion of the Fadlory fell 
to Dr. Cunningham , who, after the Ruin of the Factory of 
Pulo-condore , came thither. He is faid to have minded his 
Studies fo entirely, that he left the Care of the Company's 
Concerns too much to thofe that were under him, and it 
fell out very unluckily both for the Company and himfelf, 
that they happened to be People altogether unequal tb fuch 
a Truft, which proved the Ruin of him, and of the Fadlory 
too, which fell out in the following manner. 
9. Before the Fort which they were eredling was half 
finilhed, they began to infult the People of the Country, as 
they paffed up and down the River, and among many other 
Adis of Folly and Weaknefs, they very imprudently took 
it into their Heads to fearch one of the King’s Boats, which 
was carrying a Lady of Quality down the River, which fo 
provoked the Indian Monarch, that he vowed the utter 
Deftrndlion of the Englijh ; and to effedt it, gathered all 
his Forces, and embarked them On board his Fleet of P'raws . 
The Company had then two Ships in the River, and there 
were befides two Merchantmen of inconfiderable Force; 
but, however, this was all they had to truft to, and there- 
fore the People of the Fadlory receiving Advice of the 
King’s Defign, and the Preparations he had made, left their 
Fadlory, and went on Board their Shipping, thinking them- 
felves more fecure there than afhore. 
When all things were in Readinefs, the Army came in 
the Night with above an hundred Pra ms, and no lefs than 
three thoufand defperate Fellows; fome landed and burnt 
the Fadlory and Fortifications, while others attacked the 
Ships which were prepared to receive them. Th z Englijh 
had made fall Nettings from the Mizen to the Fore- 
Shrouds, about two Fathoms high above the Gunnel, that 
they might not be fo fuddenly boarded by the Enemy, and 
to have the Opportunity of ufing their Blunderbuffes and 
Lances before the Enemy could get on their Decks. As 
foon as they in the Ships faw the Fleet approaching them, 
they plied their Guns with double Round and Partridge, 
and made a great Carnage ; but all did not deter the Aflail- 
ants from boarding, who, when they got as high as the 
Gun Wall, or Gunnel, were at a Lofs how to get over the 
Netting, and fo were killed with great Eafe. Some got in 
at one of the head Doors of one of the Ships, and killed 
fome Englijh in the Fore-caftle ; but they were foon de- 
ftroyed. The two great Ships, though in Danger, beat 
off the Enemy with fmall Lofs ; but the little Ships were 
both burnt, with moft of their Men, and one Dutch Gen- 
tleman, who was obliged to fly from Batavia on one of 
the fmall Veffels was alfo burnt in her. His Name was 
Hoogh Ca?nber , and had been the Embaffador of the King 
of Perfia. 
Some fay, who were there at the Time of the Engage- 
ment, that the Englijh killed (in two Hours that the 
Adtion was hot) above one thoufand five hundred, befides 
many wounded and maimed ; but the Englijh were forced 
to be gone from their Settlement. The King thought his 
Revenge had gone far enough, in driving them from their 
Settlement ; and finding the Lofs of the Englijh Trade af- 
fedled his Revenue, he let all Englijh , who traded to Johore 
and other circumjacent Nations, know, that he would ftill 
continue a free Trade with the Englifo on the old Footing* 
but would never fuffer them, or any other Nation, to build 
Forts in his Country. Several Englijh have been there fince, 
and loaded Pepper, and have been civilly treated ; and the 
Dutch fent a Ship from Batavia in Anno 1712, to trade 
with them ; but the Natives refufed Commerce with 
them. 
SECT, 
