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formerly done, w/iere they would be well received, and that the Por¬ 
tuguese should go to his ports and enjoy the benefits of commerce. 
With this message of the Governor the king was highly pleased and 
replied with many agreeable expressions, offering his friendship and 
promising to do everything that was desired. On Andrade’s re¬ 
turn he sent with him two Mandarijs [Mantris], with some presents, 
to visit Gonsalo Pereira. 
“ This king of Borneo was a Mahomedan, as well as all his sub¬ 
jects, rich, powerful and served with great state \ he had a Governor 
who ruled the kingdom for him, and who, in his language, is named 
Zabandar. The people of this island are of a brownish eolour, well 
made, well dressed and using a language like that of the Malays, 
The country abounds in flesh, rice and several kinds of food, and in 
merchantable products of the earth of great value. Near the beach 
close to the city of Tanjapura, there are found diamonds very fine 
and of greater value than those of India, and everywhere they find 
the true camphor in trees, as resin is found in Europe, and this is the 
kind which in India has so great a price, that imported from Persia 
being spurious. The city of Borneo is large, surrounded by a wall 
of brick, and possesses noble edifices where the kings reside and hold 
their sumptuous courts. In Borneo, Lave [Lawa], Tanjapura, Cera- 
va [Sarlwa’), the principal ports of this island, there are many weal¬ 
thy merchants who trade to Malacca, Sumatra, Siam in China, and 
other parts, to which they export diamonds, camphor, agala wood, 
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provisions, and a kind of wine which they call Tampor,' x which is the 
best of their artificial products. From this city Gonsalo Pereira de¬ 
parted, leaving the king very friendly, and arrived at Ternate in Oc¬ 
tober 1530.”f At a later period a Portuguese navigator named Pe¬ 
dro Teixera sailed along the coast from the western point to the har¬ 
bour of Borneo. 
After this event Valentyn did not find anything further relating to 
Borneo in the writings of the Portuguese.^ “ However” he adds 
* Probably the light spirit made from the fruit of the Tampui. 
•{• De Barros, Dec. 4, Liv. vi. e. six. 
4 Nor do we find that De Barros describes any visit to Borneo after that 
of Pereira, 
