506 NOTICES OF EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH ISORNEO. 
In 1004 van Warwyk procured some diamonds at Succadana, 
and in July of the same year, when he was lying 1 at Patani, a junk 
with an envoy from Borneo came to him bringing 8 Dutch captives 
who had been taken, with their unarmed vessel. The king, being - 
dissatisfied with this, now sent them to the admiral with a friendly 
letter, in which he also invited him to trade in Ms country. He and 
the nobility there had used the captives very well; but they had suf¬ 
fered many injuries from the common people.* 
Of the proceedings of Van Warwyk, Hans Roef, Versehoor, Mi- 
chielzoon and Samuel Blommart or Bloemmaertz, in extending the 
trade of the Dutch on Borneo we need not here speak, as they were 
almost entirely confined to the west coast, ending in the establish¬ 
ment of factories at Landak and Sukadanain 1608j% and one in 1609 
at Sambas, where a monopoly of the trade was granted to them in 
exclusion of all other Europeans.^ The factory at Sukadana was 
abandoned in 1623.§ 
Blommart in 1609 reported that Teyen on the river Lamve, Sa- 
dpng in Borneo Proper (the eastern boundary of Sarawak,) Mam- 
pawa and Borneo were the best places for trade. At Sambas, tid¬ 
ings were received that the people of Galea, Seribas and jNIebnuge 
us that w the Dutch traded here for pepper with the Patannces, a sort of 
people of Chineseroriginal.” These must have been natives of Patani 
on the Peninsula. We extract some further particulars from Harris. 
“ The capital city, bearing the same name, contains 3,000 houses $ but 
stands in a dirty, marshy soil; so that they may go in their praws from one 
house to another. The inhabitants all go armed from the nobleman to the 
fisherman ; and the very women have so much of the soldier in Lheir com¬ 
position, that, if they receive any affront, they presently revenge themselves 
with dagger or javelin upon him that gives it. This a Dutch man bad like 
to have proved to his cost; for having some way disgusted one of these 
Dornean viragoes, she set upon him with a javelin, and had dispatched 
him, if she had not been prevented by main force. They are Mahomedans 
in point of religion, and so very superstitious therein, that they will sooner 
die than taste anything that comes from a swine; neither will they keep 
any of these creatures about them. The better sort of them have a covering 
of linen from the waist downwards, and a cotton turban on their heads; 
hut the common people go all naked. They chew a great deal of Beetle and 
Aracca in this Island, which is also a mighty fashion in many other parts. 
The Dutch, seeing little hope of profitable trade here, sailed for Bantam, 
not extremely well pleased either with the country or its inhabitants.’* 
—Harris vol. i. p. 35. 
¥ Yalentyn. *{* Radermacher, p 44, 50. 
t Valcntyn, vol. iii. p. 245. 
§ Dr. Leyden’s Sketch of Borneo p. 25. (Yerhandelingen van het Bat, 
Geuot. vol, vii.) 
