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THE GEOGRAPHICAL GROUP OF BORNEO. 
anchored on the 26th of the same month in the bay of Brum or Bor¬ 
neo-proper ; the inhabitants received him amicably, he traded there 
with some Chinese junks, and after having remained till the 5th Ja¬ 
nuary 1601 he again proceeded to sea. 
In 1604 Admiral Wy brand van Warwyk, having under his orders 
five vessels, arrived on the southern coast; thence he went to the 
Karimata islands and sent a vessel to examine Succdddna; he would 
not enter into relations but for the value of a hundred piastres in 
diamonds; but the prince offered him the liberty of trade in his 
states. 
From the 20th August 1603 the Sovereign of Bantam had ceded 
to van Warwyk some lands in the island of Java to form a factory ; 
he nominated Francois Wittert one of the officers of his ships chief 
of it; in the instructions which were delivered to him, this officer 
received orders to visit the coasts of Borneo where the lapis hezoar 
and diamonds are found in large quantities. This chief on the 
14th February 1606 sent an agent to Banjermassing, who was as¬ 
sassinated theie with all the crew of his vessel. Verschoor in Ja¬ 
nuary 1607 sent a commercial agent to Succ&dana ; the large quan¬ 
tity of diamonds which this agent, named Hans Roef, collected there, 
produced a resolution of the Council of Bantam dated 12th October 
1608, which ordered the establishment of a factory on the coast of 
Borneo : Bloemmaertz was appointed chief, and power was given 
to him to conclude treaties with the princes of the states of Sambas, 
L&nd&k, Banjermassing and Borneo-proper. 
A woman named Ratu Bunko governed the states of Sambds at 
this time ; the chief of the new Dutch factory presented himself to 
her, furnished with a letter from prince Maurice of the Low Coun¬ 
tries, addressed to the sovereigns of Borneo, of which the object was 
the conclusion of treaties with these princes; but Ratu Bunko re¬ 
fused this, saying that trade in her country teas free to every one , 
although at this time she was at war with some other states of Bor¬ 
neo as well as with the Sultan of Plemb&ng on Sumatra. The ne- 
gaciafcor was more fortunate at Sambas, where a treaty, concluded in 
1600 with the Sultan Mohammed Dj&la ud Din, authorized the Com- 
