Chap. II. 
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with the "Tartars , and to grant the Dutch a Settlement 
and a free Trade, which he thought might content both 
Parties. 
The Son of Coxengd, however, having difcovered the 
Defign, defeated it, and procuring himfelf to be defied 
General, feized the old Man, and lent him a fecond time 
to prifon, where, in a Fit ot Melancholy, he difpatched 
himfelf with his own Hands. This young Officer inherited 
all the Spirit and all the Abilities of his Family, and ma- 
naged his Affairs with fuch Courage and ConduCl, that the 
Admiral foon found himfelf obliged to return to Batavia 
with his Fleet, without being able to execute the Com- 
miffion he had received, which was the Reafon that he 
met from the General and Council no extraordinary 
Welcome. 
The War in which the States engaged with King Charles 
the Second, retarded in fome meafure the Progrefs of the 
Company in the Indies ; and when this was fini filed, they 
very unexpectedly found themfelves a-frefh embarraffed in 
that Part of the World, by the Infults and Depredations 
committed by the King of Macajfar , as their Writers re- 
port ; for his Subjects had murdered fome of the Dutch 
that had landed in his Dominions, and had likewife plun- 
dered feveral Ships that had run afhore upon the Coafts of 
his Dominions •, but before any , Hoftilities were commit- 
ted on either Side, a Treaty was fet on Foot, by which the 
Kingpromifed to make full Satisfaction for the Injuries done 
to the Company k , as alfo to make fuch Submiffions as 
they fhould require from him on account of thefe Dis- 
orders. 
The Company, however, fufpecting the Sincerity of 
the King’s Promifes in this refpect, thought proper to fend 
their Admiral, Cornelius Speelman^ who had been Governor 
of the Coaft of Coromandel , with a Squadron of thirteen 
Men of War, and a certain Number of Tranfports, with 
eight hundred Soldiers on board, with Orders to fee the late 
Treaty executed according to the Letter in every Article j 
and he arrived with this naval Force before Macajfar on the 
19th of December , 1 666. The very next Morning came two 
Deputies from the King on board, and brought with them 
a thoufand aild fifty- fix Ingots of Gold, which had been 
promifed in Satisfaction for the Murder of the Dutch and 
alfo the Sum of One thoufand four hundred and thirty- 
five Rix-Dollars, in Satisfaction for the Veffels that had 
been plundered, but at the fame time they declared in the 
Name of the King their Mafter, that the Submiffions re- 
quired of him were inconfiftent with his Dignity ; and 
therefore fuch as he could not comply with. As this was 
precifely what the Company expected, and as they were al- 
fo informed that the King of Macajfar had fent a large 
Fleet in order to attack the Ifiand of Bouton , Admiral 
Speelman immediately declared War; and having made 
two Defcents upon the Enemy’s Country, Carried offi an 
incredible Quantity of Plunder, burned fifty Villages to 
the Ground, and about an hundred of his Ships in his 
Forts. 
After fo fignal a Revenge the Admiral failed from Ma~ 
eajfar in order to relieve the Ifiand of Bouton , which was 
hard preffed by the Fleet and Army, which the King of 
Macajfar had fent againft it *, Admiral Speelman arrived 
before that Place the laft Day of the Year before- menti- 
oned ; and on New-Tear's-Day y 1667, he forced a Paf- 
fage with his fmall Veffels into the Haven of Bouton , and 
then proceeded to attempt the Relief of the City, which 
was befieged by the King of 'Macajfar * s General, at the 
Head of ten thoufand Men. But the Dutch attacking 
them in their Entrenchments, and finding Means to fet 
their Magazines on Fire, forced them immediately to 
raife the Siege ; which Difafter was followed by fuch 
a Prodigious Defertion among the Troops of their Allies, 
which made up the bell Part of their Army, that the Ge- 
nerals of the King of Macajfar found themfelves obliged 
to enter into a Treaty with the Dutch Admiral ; and be- 
ing able to obtain no better Terms, furrendered at Dif- 
cretion. Thus this War was ended in the Space of four 
Months, with great Glory to the Company. 
The firft thing they did was to difarm their Prifoners, 
of whom they fent five thoufand live hundred to people a 
jdefert Ifiand not far from Bouton . Four hundred of them 
Numb. 64. 
they kept for Slaves, and five thoufand Bougies , or Aux- 
iliaries of different Nations, they delivered up to the King 
of Palacca , who had been their faithful Ally during the 
Continuance of this War. They reftored to the King of 
Bouton three hundred Veffels, together with whatever 
Plunder had been taken from his Subjects by the Enemy, 
and could be found after their Defeat the reft of the 
King of Macajfar’s Junks they incorporated with their own 
Fleet of Tranfports, and with an hundred and ninety-five 
Standards, and all the Arms and Ammunition of the 
Enemy, with the principal Officers of their Army, whom 
they kept Prifoners. Admiral Speelman returned in Tri- 
umph to Batavia , where he was received with univerfal 
Applaufe. 
The King of Macajfar however remained ftill fixed to 
his Purpofe ; and notwithftanding all thefe Loffes, abfo- 
lutely refufed to fubmit to the Terms which the Company 
prefcribed ; but knowing, by Experience, that the whole 
Force of his Ifiand would not be fufficient to protect him 
from their Refentment, he refolved to employ his Endea- 
vours in perfuading moft of the little Sovereigns, who 
were his Neighbours, to affift and fupport him in his De- 
figns, which he declared to be no lefs than fhaking off the 
Yoke of the Dutch Company for good and all. He fuc- 
ceeded fo effectually in making this Alliance, thatAdmiral 
Speelman was obliged to follicit all the Dutch Confederates 
for their Affiftance ; and, at laft, having drawn together 
all the Force they could raife, he, on the 8th ot June , 
failed from Amboyna withfixteen Veffels, great and fmall, 
and fourteen Shallops, on board of which were the Suc- 
cours furnifhed by the King 6f Palacea and Ternate. He 
failed firft to Bouton , but in his Paffage Part of his Fleet 
was feparated, which, however, did not hinder him from 
landing in feveral Places on the Coaft of Macajfar , where* 
notwithftanding the great Inequality of the others in Point 
of Numbers, he had tolerable Succefs. 
At length, on the 19th of July , in the Morning, he 
attempted to force a Paffage into the Port of Macajfar * 
but in this he was difappointed $ for the King having 
erected a Royal Fort for the Defence of the Place* the 
Dutch , after twenty-four Hours cannonading, were forced 
to retire. A few Days after the Admiral was joined by 
that Part of the Fleet which had been feparated from him 
by the Storm ; and, on the Second of Augujl , he made a 
Defcent with his whole Force at a Place called Glifon . 
The Army of the Company confifted of fix hundred 
Dutch Troops, three hundred dilciplined Indians in their 
Pay, three thoufand Men from Ternate and Bouton , ieven 
thoufand Bougeis , eight hundred Seamen, and two inde- 
pendent Companies, under the Command of the Captains 
Joncker and Stryker. But the Forces of the Enemy were 
incomparably greater ; for they amounted to no fewer than 
twenty thoufand Men, under the Command of all the 
little Kings and Princes that the Monarch of Macajfar 
had drawn over to his Party. 
Admiral Speelman kept the main Body of his Forces 
near his Fleet, and detached one hundred Men, the braveft 
and the belt armed under his Command, to attack the 
Caftle of Glijfon in the Night. The King of Palacca i 
who was intruded with the Management of this Affair, ex- 
ecuted it with fuch Courage and Conduct, that, by three 
in the Morning, he became Mafter of the Place, of which 
he gave Notice to the Dutch Admiral, who immediately 
fent him fuch Reinforcements and Supplies as were requi- 
fite to preferve it. This was a dreadful Blow to the Ene- 
my •, and as the Admiral very juftly forefaw, the firft thing 
they did was to attempt the Recovery of it, in which, how- 
ever, they were fo far from fucceeding, that after three ge- 
neral Affaults, in each of which they loft a great Number 
of Men, they were forced to give over that Defign 5 nei- 
ther was this all, for taking Advantage of the Situation 
of this Fortrefs, fuch Multitudes of Bombs and red-hot 
Bullets were fired froffi thence into the Enemy’s Camp, as 
threw them into the utmoft Confternation and Confufion, 
which Opportunity was not let flip by the Dutch General, 
who, with the beft Part of his Forces, attacked the Ene- 
my’s Entrenchments, at the fame time that a vigorous 
Sally was made from the Caftle, which obliged the Enemy 
to quit all their Polls. 
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