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had fallen away from Borneo, and placed themselves under the pow¬ 
er of the king of Johore. These were places of large trade, where 
much gold, bezoar, pearl, and other rare articles were found.* 
Although other Settlements were subsequently formed, they seem 
to have been neglected and ultimately withdrawn. During the lat¬ 
ter half of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Company only occa¬ 
sionally sent vessels to the coast of Borneo, and it was not till 1712 
that they resolved to re-establish a factory at Banjennassing. When 
the Commissioners arrived there however, they found that all the pep¬ 
per had been carried away by the Chinese junks. 
The narrative of Roggewein’s voyage supplies us with some account 
of Borneo in 1721. It is there stated that “ when the Dutch first set¬ 
tled in the East Indies, they were very solicitous about establishing 
their factories in Borneo ; and accordingly they fixed them at the city 
of that name, at Sambas and Sukadana ; but they soon found that there 
was no such thing as dealing with the inhabitants, who are certainly 
the basest, crudest, and most perfidious people in the world. The 
Dutch therefore quitted the island, and though invited thither seve¬ 
ral times since have absolutely refused to return.” “ Yet,” it is said 
at another place, “ they frequently send their ships hither to load 
with pepper, and endeavour to keep up a good correspondence with 
the kings of Borneo and Sambas ; for as to the king of Banjar he 
has declined to have anything to do with them.” In 1747 they ex¬ 
torted a monopoly of trade from the king of Banjermassing and 
formed a factory at Tatas or Banjermassing, which was kept up till 
1807-8.f In 1776 they established factories at Pontiana and Lan- 
dak. In 1/8C they sacked Sukadana and Mampavva and made an 
establishment at the latter. In 1790 they abandoned this factory 
and Pontiana. 
We shall not further follow the history of the Dutch establish¬ 
ments on Borneo, as they do not appear to have made any later at¬ 
tempts to enter into relations with the king of Borneo Proper. A 
notice of their progress along the west coast has already appeared 
* Valentyn. 
f Br. Leyden, p. 24. Malte Brun’s Geography, 
