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The English procured 40 Banjar gantangs of pepper for 1 Spa¬ 
nish dollar, and sold it again to the Chinese at the rate of 13 gau- 
tangs for a dollar. 
At this time the English got into disputes with the people of Ban-, 
jar massing which led to a war, in which the English took 5 Banjar- 
ese villages, Banjarmassing, Banjar, Kayu Tingi, Tatas and Kart a 
Pura. The booty which they obtained consisted of 7 metal pieces, 
100 swivel guns and 20 koyans of pepper. The king of Banjar was 
then named Panombahan, and was of the royal house of Sumbawa, 
and the minister, Pang^ran Purabaya, was of the Makasser race of 
Krain Krongrong. 
They did not concern themselves with the revenue of the country, 
but they received 3000 dollars for the expences of the war, and Cap¬ 
tain Moor then restored 4 of the villages although he retained Ban¬ 
jarmassing for the residence of the English. They had not molested 
the Banjarese first; hut these latter without justification had resolv¬ 
ed to attack them by surprise; and the English, getting informa¬ 
tion of this, made war upon them, although at that time their force 
consisted only of 10 Englishmen and 40 Bugis.* 
In 1706 Jacob Hoogkamer with some Englishmen, after flying 
from Batavia, came to Banjarmassing, but getting into disputes with 
the inhabitants they were driven to their ships with much loss, while 
one of the ships was burned. Valentyn gives several details res¬ 
pecting this event but they are not very connected, and we prefer 
extracting the more circumstantial account given by Hamilton in his 
New Account of the East Indies: 
« I heard Mr. Sylvanus Landen, who had been Chief of Borneo, 
say, that he much wondered why the Company of England should 
have settled a Factory at Banjarmassing, where they were forced for 
China and 1 here, from which we may form some idea of the extent of the 
English trade with China and Bengal. This Captain Moor spoke good Ma¬ 
lay and asked a spy of ours, sent hither from Makassar, if Governor Beer- 
nink had the misfortune, w hile he lay asleep in the palace of the king of Goa, 
to be attacked and run through by Sampuwala and thus murdered, a cir¬ 
cumstance which the Boni interpreter had spread abroad in Java, and which 
he had heard from a Johore man who had come over from Jaya to Banjar¬ 
massing in November, 1701.’.—Yalentyn. 
Abiidged from Yalentyn, voi. iii. p. *248. 
