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1780. purchafes of any kind could be made. We availed ourfelves 
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or the opportunity which this circumftance afforded us, to 
walk about the town; and did not forget to fearch, though 
in vain, for the remains of a fort, which had been built 
by our countrymen near the fpot we were now upon, in 
1702 
On returning to the Captain’s houfe, we were forry to 
find that he was not yet arrived; and the more fo, as the 
time was almofl elapfed which Captain Gore had fixed for 
our return to the boat. The natives were defirous we 
fhould lengthen our flay ; they even propofed our palling 
the night there, and offered to accommodate us in the belt 
manner in their power. I had obferved, when we were in 
the. houfe before, and now remarked it the more, that the 
man I have mentioned above, frequently retired into one 
of the end rooms, and flaid there fome little time, before 
he anfwered the queftions that were put to him; which 
led me to fufpe6t that the Captain was all the time there, 
though, for reafons bell known to himfelf, he did not 
choofe to appear; and I was confirmed in this opinion, by 
being flopped as I was attempting to go into the room. At 
length, it clearly appeared that my fufpicions were well 
founded; for, on our preparing to depart, the perfon who 
had fo often paffed in and out, came from the room with a 
* The Englifh fettled here in the year 1702, when the factory of Chufan, on the 
coaft of China, was broken up, and brought with them fome Macaflar foldiers, who were 
hired to affift in building a fort; but the prefident not fulfilling his engagement with 
them, they watched an opportunity, and one night murdered all the Englifh in the fort. 
Thofe without the fort, hearing a noife, took the alarm, and ran to their boats, very 
narrowly efcaping with their lives, but not without much fatigue, hunger, and thirft, to 
the Johore dominions, where they were treated with great humanity. Some of thefe 
afterward went to form a fettlement at Benjar-Maffean, on die ifland of Borneo.—'Ey? 
India Directory, p, 86. 
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