666 BAM 
Band of Pensioners. See Pensioner. 
Bands of a Saddle, are two pieces of iron nailed up¬ 
on the bows of the faddle, to hold the bows in the right 
iituatiqn. 
L^Ban d, v. a. To unite together into one body or troop : 
They, to live exempt 
From heav’ns high jurifdiCtion, in new league 
Banded a'gaind his throne. Milton. 
'J'o bind over with a band: 
And by his mother flood an infant lover, 
With wings unfledg’d, his eyes were banded over. Dryden . 
BAN'DA ISLANDS, the general name of five Blands 
in the Eafl Indies, lately belonging to the Dutch ; but 
which, with Amboyna, furrendered to the Englifh on the 
gth of March, 179.6. Their names are, Banda or Lantor, 
Gonapi or Gounong-Api, Ay or Pulo-Ay or Poolaway, 
Rhun or Pulo-Rlnin or Poleron, and Rodngyn. Banda 
lies in lat. 4. 48. S. Ion. 128. 3. E. Greenwich. Two of 
tbefe i(lands are uncultivated, and almoft entirely uninha¬ 
bited ; the other three claim the didinCtion of being the 
only places in the world that produce the nutmeg. If we 
except this valuable fpice, the Blands of Banda, like all 
the Moluccas, are barren in a dreadful degree. What 
they produce in fuperfluities they want in necelfaries. The 
land will not bring forth any kind of corn; and the pith 
of the fago ferves the natives of the country indead of 
bread. As this food is not (Efficient for the Europeans 
who fettle in the Moluccas, they are allowed to fetch pro- 
vifions from Java, Macaflar, or the extremely fertile ifland 
of Bali. 
This is the only fettlement in the Ead Indies that can 
be confidered as an European colony ; becaufe it is the on¬ 
ly one where the Europeans are proprietors of lands. The 
Dutch company, finding that the inhabitants of Banda 
•were Lavage, cruel, and treacherous, becaufe they were 
impatient under their yoke, refolved to exterminate them. 
Their pofleflions were divided among the white people, 
who got Haves from fome of the neighbouring iflands to 
cultivate the lands. Thefe white people are for the mod 
part Creoles, or malcontents who have quitted the fer- 
vice of the country. In the fmall Bland of Rofingyn there 
are likewife feveral banditti, whom the laws have branded 
'with difgrace ; and young men of abandoned principles, 
whole families wanted to get rid of them: fo that Banda 
is called the ljland of Corrcblion. The climate is fo un¬ 
healthy, that thefe unhappy men live but a fiiort time. It 
is on account of the lofs of fo great a number of hands, 
that attempts have been made to transfer the culture of 
the nutmeg to Amboyna; and the company were likewife 
probably influenced by two other flrong motives of inte- 
refl, as their trade would be carried on with lels expence 
and greater fafety. When the BritBh troops took pofl'ef- 
fion of Banda, there were found in the treafury 66,675 rix- 
dollars, and in (lore 84,777^. of nutmegs, i 9 ,587lbs. of 
mace, belides merchandile and other dores. 
BAN'DAGE,/. \_bandage, Fr. ] Something bound over 
another.—Zeal too had a place among the red, withaAzre- 
dage over her eyes ; though one would not have expected 
to have feen her reprefented in fnow. AddiJ'on .—It isufed, 
in furgery, for the fillet or roller wrapped over a wounded 
member ; and, fometimes, for the aft or practice of ap¬ 
plying bandages. See Surgery. 
B ANDALE'ER, or Bandileer,/ [The word is ori¬ 
ginally French, bandouiller, formed apparently from ban- 
doulier, a kind of banditti particularly infeding the Pyre¬ 
neans, who were formerly didinguifhed by this piece of 
furniture; and were themfelves fo denominated, quafi ban 
de volieres, ‘a knot of robbers.’] A large leathern belt, 
thrown over the right dioulder, and hanging down under 
the left arm; worn by the ancient mufqueteers, both for 
the fudaining of their fire-arms, and for the carriage of 
their mufquet-charges ; which, being put up in little wood¬ 
en cafes, coated with leather, were hung, to the number 
et twelve, to each bandaleer. 
BAN 
BAND'BOX,yi [from band and box.~] A flight box tiled 
for bands, and other things of fmall weight: 
With empty bandbox fhe delights to range, 
And feigns a didant errand from the ’Change. Gay. 
BAN'DEL CAUS, a town of Africa, on the coad of 
the kingdom of Adel. 
BAN'DELET,yi [bandelet, Fr.] In architecture, any 
little band, flat moulding, or fillet. 
B ANDE'RAS, a large bay in the Pacific Ocean, on the 
w'ed coad of Mexico, between Cape Ccrientes and Tinto- 
que Point. 
BANDE'RE, or Bando'ra, a town of Hindodan, in 
the Circar of Goluid, ico miles fouth of Agra, and forty- 
four fouth-fouth-eall of Gohud. 
BAN'DERET,/. a general, or commander in chief. 
This appellation is given to the principal commanders of 
the troops of the canton of Bern in Switzerland, where 
there are four banderets, who command all the forces of 
that canton. 
B AN'DI, a river of Africa, in the country of Calabar, 
in Lower Guinea, which runs into the fea by two chan¬ 
nels, with a town of the fame name on an Bland at its mouth. 
B ANDINEL'Ll (Baccio), acelebrated Florentine fculp- 
tor and painter, born in 1471, and died in 1559. 
BANDIT, f. \_bandito, Ital.] A man outlawed: 
No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, 
No cavern’d hermit, reds felf-fatisfy’d'. Pope. 
BANDIT'T 0 ,f. in the plural banditti, [ bandite , Itah] 
A Roman fvrorder, and banditto Have. Shakefpeare. 
Banditti are perfons proferibed, or, as we call it, out¬ 
lawed : fometimes denominated banniti, or forris banniti. 
It is alfo a denomination given to highwaymen or robbers 
who infed the road in troops, efpecially in Italy, France, 
and Sicily. Mr. Brydone, in his Tour through Sicily, in¬ 
forms us, that in the eaflern part, called Val Demoni, from 
the evil fpirits that are fuppofed to inhabit mount ZEtna, 
it has ever been found, altogether impracticable to extir¬ 
pate the banditti; there being numberlefs caverns and fub- 
terraneous paffiiges round that mountain, where no troops 
could pollibly purfue them: befides they are known to be 
perfectly determined and refolute, never failing.to take a 
dreadful revenge on all who have offended them. Hence 
the prince of Villa Franca has embraced it, not only as the 
fated, but the wifefl and mod political, fcherne, to become 
their declared patron and protestor: and fueh of them as 
think proper to leave their mountains and foreds, though 
perhaps only for a time, are fure fo meet with good encou¬ 
ragement and a certain protection in his fervice, whole con¬ 
fidence they enjoy, and which they have never yet been 
found to make an improper life of. They are clothed in 
tire prince’s livery, yellow and green, with diver lace ; and 
wear likewife a badge of their order, which intitles them 
to refpeCt from the people. 
In fome circumdances thefe banditti are the mod con- 
feientious people of the ifland, and have by much the 
highed and mod romantic notions of what they call the 
point of honour. However criminal they may be with re¬ 
gard to plunder in general; yet, with refpeCt to one ano¬ 
ther, and to every perfon to whom'they have once profef- 
fed it, they have ever maintained the mod unfliaken fide¬ 
lity. The magidrates have often been obliged to proteCt 
them, and pay them in court, as they are known to be per¬ 
fectly determined and -defperate, and' fo extremely vin¬ 
dictive, that they will certainly put any perfon to death 
that has ever given them ferious provocation. On the 
other hand, it never was known that any perfon who had 
put himfelf under their protection, anti (hewed that he 
had confidence in them, had caufe to repent of it, or was 
injured by any of them in the mod minute trifle; but, on 
the contrary, they will proteft him from impofltions of 
every kind, and fcorn to go halves with the landlord, like 
mod other conductors and travelling fervants, and will de¬ 
fend him with their lives if there be occalion. Thofe of 
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