510 NOTICES OF EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE WITH BORNEO, 
Beveral years to keep tlieir factory on flotes of great trees tied to¬ 
gether, and made fast to trees growing in the water on the side of a 
river with cables made of rattans; and when they built a factory, they 
were forced first to drive poles in the ground to make a foundation, 
as the Dutch do at Amsterdam, and raise earth ou them to build up¬ 
on. 
“ Captain Barry, a very ingenious gentleman, drew the plan, but 
died before the work was brought to any great forwardness, and Mr. 
Cunningham, who came thither from Pulo Condore, when the fac¬ 
tory was cut off by their Macassar soldiers, came to the head of the 
Company’s affairs. He was bred a surgeon, and had turned Virtu¬ 
oso, would spend whole days in contemplating on the Nature, Shape, 
and Qualities of a Butterfly or a Shellfish, and left the management 
of the Company’s business to others as little capable as himself, so 
every one hut he was master. 
“ Their Factory was not half finished before they began to domi¬ 
neer over the Natives, who past in their boats up and down the Ri¬ 
ver, and very imprudently would needs search one of the King’s 
boats, who was a carrying Lady of quality down the river, which so 
provoked the King, that he aware revenge, and accordingly gathered 
an army, and slop’d it one large praws, to execute his rage on the 
factory and shipping that lay on the River. The Company had two 
ships, and there were two others that belonged to private merchants, 
and I was pretty deeply concerned in one of them. The Factory 
receiving advice of the King’s design, and the preparations he had 
made, left their Factory and went on board the shipping, thinking 
themselves more secure on board than ashore. When all things 
were in a readiness, the army came in the night, with above 100 
pravvs, and no less than 3,000 desperate fellows. Some landed and 
burnt the factory and fortifications, while others attacked the ships, 
which were prepared to receive them. The English had made fast 
nettings from the mizen to the fore shrouds, about two fathoms 
high above the gunnel, that they might not be too suddenly board¬ 
ed by the enemy, and to have the opportunity of using their blun¬ 
derbusses and lances before the enemy could get on their decks. 
