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A42798	A new voyage to the East-Indies containing an account of several of those rich countries, and more particularly of the kingdom of Bantam : giving an exact relation of the extent of that monarch's dominions, the religion, manners and customs of the inhabitants, their commerce, and the product of the country, and likewise a faithful narrative of the kingdom of Siam, of the isles of Japan and Madagascar, and of several other parts, with such new discoveries as were never yet made by any other traveller / by Mr. Glanius.	Glanius, Mr.	1682 (1682)	Wing G793; ESTC R40478	75,780	191

way to help himself The same way they use for the most part in the Kingdom of Siam and Pegu onely that the Natives there mount the Female Elephant and go to find out the Male in the Forests and when they have met with his haunt they tie the Female to the most convenient place they can find and then they fix their Snares for the Elephant who in a short time hastens towards the Female hot for generation where her Cries call him This is observable of the Female that when she begins to be hot she gathers together a great heap of Herbs and Weeds and makes her self a kind of Bed some four or five foot high from the ground where contrary to the Custom of all other Creatures she lies upon her back in expectation of the Male whom she calls to her by a peculiar Cry This is furthermore particular to the Elephant in the Isle of Ceylon that only the first which the Female brings forth has Tushes And it is also observable that the Ivory which comes from Achem when it is wrought has this peculiar quality with it that it never grows yellow like that which comes out of the Continent and from the East-Indies which makes it more esteemed and dearer than any other When the Merchants bring Elephants to any place to sell 't is a pleasant sight to see 'em go along for in regard there are generally old and young together when the old ones are gone by the Children will be running after the little ones to play with 'em and give 'em something or other to eat While the young Elephants which are very wanton are busily taking what is offered them the Children leap upon their Back but then the young Elephants that lately stopt for the lucre of Victuals perceiving their D●ms a great way before 'em double their pace and playing with their Trunks throw the Children off their backs to the ground and that without doing 'em any harm Notwithstanding all the Inquiry I have made I could never find exactly how long the Elephant will live nor can all the Governours and Keepers of those Creatures tell you more than that such an Elephant has been in the possession of their Father Grandfather and Great Grandfather and by that computation I have found that they have liv'd some of 'em six score or an Hundred and Thirty Years The Javians making their benefit of the Portugals Ingratitude to the Indian Princes who entertained 'em did pertinaciously oppose the establishment of any strangers in the Isle But the profit the Kings of Bantam and Jacatra receive by vending their Spices to the English and Dutch was so considerable that at last they consented that the People of those two Nations should build a House for such Factors as they should have occasion to leave there and for stowing up the Commodities they traffiqu'd in The Dutch by Treaty with those Kings regulated the Customs of Importation and Exportation but those Articles were so ill kept by the Indian Kings who raised their Rates according as they discovered the strangers necessity of Commerce that the Dutch to avoid this Injustice and secure ' emselves from the violence of the Barbarians by degrees secretly fortified their Quarters at Jacatra and in a short time made it defensible The Indians perceived it not till 't was past their hopes of forcing it so as in this despair of driving out the Dutch they made use of the bad Correspondence between the English and them which chiefly appeared in a Sea-fight they had near Bantam and Jacatra June 2. 1619. the Holland Fleet being put to Flight by the English The Dutch being forced to retreat the King of Jacatra with the English Forces besieged the Dutch Fort now called Batavia which Siege lasted six Moneths till the Holland Admiral having reinforced his Fleet with the Ships that lay in the Molucques constrained the English to raise the Sieg to embarque their Guns and quit the Streight of Sundy to get into the main Sea The King of Jacatra would have cast the blame of all these disturbances upon the English but the Dutch General would not be satisfied with such excuses but landing his Forces to the number of Eleven Hundred Men he assaulted the Town of Jacatra which he took by force and having put all to the Sword fir'd it That done the Dutch compleated the Fortification of their Quarters and brought it to a regular form with four Bastions of Free-stone well Trench'd and Pallizado'd with Half Moons Redoubts and other necessary works The King of Matram who is as it were Emperour of Java in the Year 1628. besieged this Fort and lying under the Canon storm'd it several times but in the end was forc'd to raise the Siege as he in like manner was the Year following and since that time the Dutch have established their Commerce joyntly with the Chineses Siameses Succadans and other Neighbours taking Ten in the Hundred Custom upon all Commodities whether imported or exported thence The City of Batavia is twelve Leagues from Bantam Eastward in a Bay which being sheltered with some small Islands on the Sea-side is one of the best Roads in all the Indies Strangers that inhabit there pay a certain Tax by the Moneth according to the profits they make which is great for a Porter who will with ease get two Royals a day pays but one and a half in a Moneth a Fruiterer four Royals a Fisherman three Royals Distillers of Arach eight Royals Mechanicks as Shoomakers Taylors and the like so as at present 't is the most important place and firm establishment the Dutch have throughout the Indies Shortly after my return from Bantam to Batavia I was drawn out amongst others to be sent to Siam where we arrived safely That Kingdom extends not onely in the Peninsula beyond the Ganges as far as Cape sin Capare but it likewise comprehends the Kingdom of Martaban which is upon the Gulph of Pegu and that of Cambaia upon the Gulph of Siam it is situated in the most Eastern part of all the Indies and contains abut 360 Leagues from the South to the North and about 200 in its greatest extent from East to West above the Peninsula It may be divided into four or five principal parts that which is above the Peninsula in the midst of the others is particularly the Kingdom of Siam On its West is that of Martaban on the East Cambaya and Maluca on the South This Island formerly contained several Kingdoms that are at present reduced into Provinces the Princes whereof are Subjects and Tributaries of the King of Siam Very pleasant and fruitful is this Country being watered with several great Rivers the principal of which is called Menan which after having Bathed Prom Travai and Brema Cities of Ava and Pegu enters into that of Siam passing thorough India the Capital thereof This River is so deep that it can carry Ships of four Hundred Tun and which take Twelve or Thirteen Foot

th we arriv'd at Indrapoura where we bought what we wanted We expected to have met with some more Joncks but they were already departed From thence we made towards the Sonda and a little after that we were in the Streights Fourteen Holland Ships came thundring upon us They came from Batavia with Orders from the Company to bring us thither either by fair means or foul immediately they Summon'd our Commander who very bravely made Answer That he was not a Man to yield till after having bravely defended himself and that perhaps how strong soever they might be they would find it difficult to constrain him to it The Hollanders not thinking to have met with so resolute a Man sent to Batavia to know what they were to do the Answer was that they should press us and if they found themselves too weak to perform their Commissions they should make use of the Reinforcement that was coming to them which was a great Man of War advantageously fitted out whose help was in no wise necessary The Hollanders having received this Order bid us with an imperious Tone bring to them our Flag and strike Sail or they would sink us to the bottom This daunted our Commander who had had time to think of what he was to do he became pensive uneasie and perhaps he had reason so to be His Men had still in mind the Dispute at Madagascar he knew they hated him and they only waited for an opportunity to be revenged for the affront he had put upon them These Considerations made him inclinable to yield but before he came to that Resolution he took Council of his Officers who were unanimously of Opinion that he should follow the Law of the Strongest since their loss was infallible if they persisted to make resistance this Resolution was applauded by all the Ships Crew whose disunion was so visible that they could hardly have lived longer together thus the Hollanders were received with open Arms. We were overjoy'd at the changing of our Masters and never were any Men better pleased with coming out of Prison than our Men were to go into it If the passion of Separating had not been so great among them it would have been easie for them to have made their Escape by Night by the way of Batavia for our Ship was a swift Sailer and those of the Hollanders so heavy that we were always twenty four Hours more advanced than they On the 15 th of July the Commander of the Hollander called Jacob vander Meule came on Board us and in the General of Batavia's name took an Inventory of all he found there After having written our Names and the Name of the place of our Birth those whom they met withal of our own Nation were put apart in the Corps de garde of Java the others remained in the Ship whose Coffers they picked taking out all the Money they found there and making their escape the Italians to Goa and Bantam and the Hamburghers to their own Country Presently after this Plunder our Commander was found dead and we judged by the signs he saw upon his Body that he was poysoned probably by the Italians for fear he should have defeated 'em at his return As for our parts we were kept Prisoners for fourteen or fifteen days but having presented our requests to be set at liberty we were accordingly set free and by order of the General each Man having received the Wages he pretended to from the Republick of Genoa it was left to his choice either to return into his own Country or enter into the Service of the Company I was one of the number which accepted this last offer and the others were dispersed Shortly after my entring into the Service of the East India Company I was sent by the General of Batavia to regulate some Affairs at Bantam where having dispatched my business I took occasion to make all the inquiry I could into the State of that Island which take as followeth Java Major is an Isle declining 7 degrees 40 Minutes towards the Antartic from the Equinoctial and placed in 21 degree of Longitude a very great and noble Isle for from East to West it stretches one Hundred and Fifty Leagues or of Miles Four Hundred and Fifty and from North to South Ninty Leagues or two Hundred and Seventy Miles English The Mid-land is for the most part Mountainous and meanly Peopled but the Maritine low and very Populous the first is very subject is Wind but Healthy the latter Marish and insalubrious It may be called a Compendium of the World for it abounds in all things that be either useful or excellent The Coast by reason of Trade for P●per has Towns well built and very wealthy upon the North side and to the North East are Bantam Palamban Jachatra now called Batavia by the Dutch but formerly Sunda Calapa by the Inhabitants and not unlikely to be that City Sunda where the People used with a dead Man to bury so many live fish as he had slain Enemies in his life time as also Japarra Tubur Jortan Grecy Chiringen Serebaya c. Bantam is under the Antartic declination or Latitude 6 degrees 20 minutes and of Westerly variation 3 degrees 'T is the biggest City in the Island being situated at the foot of a Mountain whence three Rivers rise two whereof run by the Walls the other thro the City but all too shallow for Navigation the Town is indifferently great but Rascally Houses the Walls which are Brick and three foot thickness are not entirely lined with Earth yet so flanked that at every Hundred Paces lies a Canon which would sufficiently secure the Curtains were it in condition for service but their Artillery is not mounted and they have no other Ammunition than a little Powder brought from Malaca where the Portugueses have a Mill. The City Gates are so wretched that they might be beaten down with a Club but so vigilantly guarded 't would be hard to approach without notice there are neither Bastions nor Towers but in lieu thereof Scaffolds of three Stories which yield a strong defence In the whole City there are but three principal Streets which all about upon the Castle called Pacebam The one from the Pacebam to the Haven another where the Kings Slaves and Domesticks inhabits leads to the Gate towards the Fields and the third to the Gate at the foot of the Mountain The Streets are not pav'd but are as commodious by means of the Sand they are covered with The Channels which in divers places cross the City are foul and stinking in regard the Stream of the River is not strong enough to carry off the filth it brings and what is thrown forth choaks the Water and makes Puddles that infect the whole City No Person of Quality but has his private Chappel or Mosquite in his House but one is common near the Palace on the Magazin and Stable-side The City is divided into several Posts each of