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A40482	A relation of two several voyages made into the East Indies by Christopher Fryke and Christopher Schewitzer the whole containing an exact account of the customs, dispositions, manners, religion, &c. of the several kingdoms and dominions in those parts of the world in general : but in a more particular manner, describing those countries which are under the power and government of the Dutch / done out of the Dutch by S.L .	Frick, Christoph, b. 1659.; Schweitzer, Christoph.	1700 (1700)	Wing F2211; ESTC R33794	234,144	381

the Men of War that lay in the Road about half a League from thence and so they were immediately embarkt And the Wind blowing then just full East as fair as they could have wish'd they straight weighed Anchor and steered directly to the Royal City of Bantam But It will be proper to give you some account of that place before I go any further and to acquaint you with the causes and motives of this Undertaking First Then you must know that this large Kingdom of Bantam being in it self of great strength hath of late much improved it self by the numbers of Foreigners that are come thither from all Nations and among them considerable numbers too of English Danes Spaniards Portugueses and Dutch which hath made it a very troublesome and dangerous Neighbour to the Dutch East-India Company insomuch that their Ships that came from Europe or any other places thither did not dare to come by the Road of Bantam but were forced to take a vast compass of three or four hundred Miles keeping to the Northward Moreover the King of Bantam had made several Attempts upon Batavia both by Sea and Land Tho' he was always forced to retire with great loss and without doing us any great damage But tho' he could not accomplish his desire and the Company could not fear a total overthrow yet they were still apprehensive that he being so much more powerful than they were would prove very fatal to them in the end and by little and little bring his designs to perfection Thus they were always very uneasie by reason of their troublesome Neighbour But not finding themselves able to declare open War against him they endeavoured to gain him by Presents and a specious shew of Friendship These means did not prove altogether unsuccessful but they were never at good understanding with each other long together For the King of Bantam besides that he was very fickle and unconstant in his Nature having so many Foreigners about him who were no Friends to the Dutch Interest he was easily perswaded by them to break Friendship with the Dutch upon the least occasion And this the English and Danes were the chief Instruments of who made there a considerable Body were rich and enioyed great freedom and a most flourishing Trade so that they with ease set the King upon us in hopes of rooting the Dutch out of their holds The Dutch therefore were always forced to be upon their Guard even while there was the greatest appearance of a settled Friendship for they were sufficiently informed that he was always contriving how he might at once fall foul on them and drive them out of Batavia Upon which they on the other side resolved to countermine his designs and thought it the best Expedient to divert him from that Undertaking by finding him some Employment with some other Neighbours and accordingly made it their business to create an ill understanding betwixt him and the King of Japara hoping that the silent Fire might in time break out into an open Flame This they effected at length but it proved little or no advantage to them for they lay so far asunder that it never came but to a few little Skirmishes which did not damage him much nor profit them So that they fell very short of what they had promised themselves for they were fully perswaded that the Emperour of Japara would have soon been induced to pursue the King of Bantam with the utmost vigour especially when there was so great a motive to spur him on as the rejoyning of that Kingdom to his Empire from which it had been divided The Island of Great Java of which I have already made mention did likewise belong to him once and altogether made but one Empire under the Dominion of the Great Mataran but now it is divided into three Kingdoms to wit Japard Bantam and Jacatra or Kartiri of which i. e. Jacatra the present Batavia is a part and did heretofore belong to the King of Jacatra from whom the Portugueezes took it After that the Spaniards got it from them And lastly the Dutch from the Spaniards Now the Dutch having all this while made several Attempts upon the King of Jacatra which had proved very advantageous to them they at length subdued him Having first made the Emperour of Japara unable to resist them or to stand up in the defence of his Neighbour over whom they carried a total Victory a little before I came to Batavia And having all this while received fresh supplies yearly from Holland which together with Germany enjoyed a profound Peace and therefore could and did constantly furnish them with large Recruits of choice good Soldiers The Duth East-India Company thought they might be able to cope with Bantam and accordingly made preparations against it Now while these things were in agitation and they big with the design and hopes of infallible success the fairest opportunity that could be wish'd for offered it self to them unexpected and therefore so much the more welcome which was a sudden falling out between the old and the two young Kings of Bantam The occasion whereof was this The old King being weary with the Burden of the Government and desirous to spend his remaining days in ease and tranquility made over his Kingdom to his younger Son the eldest having dedicated himself to a spiritual life was a Bangerang Babay something like an Archbishop with us and having thus invested his younger Son with the Regal Power he retired to an Old Castle called Dortjasse the old place of his residence about four Miles from Bantam The young King having Reigned some years his People began to grow weary of him specially the Nobles the Bourgerang and Kirria and they made their Complaints to the old King that he oppressed his Subjects and that he over-burden'd them with his Recreations and his constant Hunting and by his requiring so much Attendance and Service to be done him so that they were no longer able to bear the Yoke He did not Govern as other Heathen Kings use for the most part to do but after the Model he had taken from the European Countries some of which he had been in as Constantinople and would have gone to France England Spain and Portugal if his Law had permitted him and as far as that had given him leave he had Travelled viz. in Muscovy Schiras Ispahan Japan Siam from which several places he had taken those Methods of Government which he thought most convenient to introduce into his own Dominions But his Subjects being dissatisfied with these Innovations conspired at last together and Deposed him and set his Brother the Bangarang Babay in his stead Upon this the Old King came with a considerable Retinue and his Main Guard before the Castle which is in the middle of Bantam The young King having notice of this commanded the Gates to be shut against him and sent to know what he wanted The old King sent him an Answer which

for a very small Fault or sometimes a meer Humour We will now give you some Account of their Military Exploits and Discipline They have a General which they call Dissave next to him some Saudis Then the Araski which are as Captains over 20 or 30 men each with an Ensign Their Artillery is only a sort of Muskets which stand upon a frame with three Feet of which the hindmost is broad and shorter than the two foremost Having no Lead they shoot with Iron Bullets These Muskets the Nobility which serve the King carry with 'em in fights They come into the Field 30 40 or 50000 strong all barefoot Their Arms are a heavy Iron Cimiter about a yard long and a light Half Pike Few have Muskets or Fire-Locks or if they have they do little Execution with them tho' they have never so much room to draw up yet they never advance but in single Ranks for fear the Hollanders should take too many of them off at once with their Field-Pieces Their Drummers are very much despised being taken out of a sort of People tho' Cingulaians too that live upon Bufflars Flesh and the Flesh of any kind of Beasts They call them Borrowayen They tie to their Body two little sorts of Drums call'd Tamelins others have but one of 'em but then it is bigger They beat distinct Marches with a great deal of Art and the Soldiers understand them very well They beat morning and night but differently Their Pipers use both a straight and a crooked sort of Pipe and make pretty Musick with them both together Any Dutchmen that are taken by these People are never to be Ransom'd at any Rate but must remain amongst them in great Slavery all the days of their Life and all the ways are so strictly guarded that there is no escaping by any means The Dutch that sometimes desert us and go over to the King of Candi are maintained in Necessaries but are not trusted in any Employment The other sort of Inhabitants of this Island are those of Gala Batacolo Trinconomala Jafnapatnam Manara Aripen Calpintin as far as Negombo and are called Malabars These are all very well shaped and very black They are all under the Government of the Hollanders except those of Wani who have a King of their own But he is obliged to pay to the East-India Company a yearly Tribute of many Elephants and Money besides These Malabars come originally from the Wild Coast of Malabar lying by Manara and from the Kingdoms of the great Samerin Calicut Cananor and others They are all Infidels and of different Opinions Some of 'em who are call'd Vitzliputzli or Joosie Worship the Devil others a Serpent a Crocodile or an Elephant and commonly what they please themselves They neither Eat the Flesh of Bufflars nor Swine They hire old Women to Mourn over their Dead a whole night and cry over the Corps all the time Ajo aniate ariate inguwarre which is as much as to say Why did you Die Come come live again c. Then they Bury him and leave the Hutt out of which the Man died and build another They are a little more Civil than the Cingulaians and their Dress is a little more comely The Women never let themselves be seen uncovered by the Christians When they go abroad they are all covered with white Linnen and so close that they can but just see their way with the corner of one Eye Their Arms and their Legs are all adorned with Silver Rings and their Ears about a Span long with Gold Their Fingers and Toes too are all richly set out with several sorts of Rings most of Silver and Gold Their Numbers are 1 Onera 2 Renda 3 Muna 4 Nala 5 Anse 6 Ara 7 Ola 8 Orta 9 Otta 10 Padda 11 Paddona 12 Padda-renda 13 Paddamuna 14 Padda-nala 15 Padda-anse c. The manner of their Salutation is Laying their Hand on their Forehead and saying Damrian Amadran which is returned the same way They write likewise upon Leaves of Trees with an Iron-Pin and make whole Books of ' em We will now give you some Account How the Hollanders came to Conquer this Country and make themselves Masters of it I have already told you how it came to be in the Power of the King of Spain and fortified by the Spaniards It remained a great while in their Hands till the Portugueses Rebelling in Spain chose a King to themselves with whom all the Spaniards that were in the East-Indies joyn'd And thus the King of Spain lost all his Pretensions in those Countries which was no small loss to him The Portugueses would be improving their Conquests and try their Strength against the King of Candi and thought by Fire and Sword and their barbarous Slaughters and Murthers to frighten him out of his Kingdom but all in vain For the King of Candi finding himself in a great Extremity call'd the Dutch to his Assistance who together fell upon the Portugueses and became at length Masters of all their Cities and Fortifications above-named The last that was Besieged by 'em was the Capital City of Columbo which is about 28 years ago The King of Candi was now free and had an Army of 50000 Men. The Dutch General on the other side call'd Min Heer Vander Hulft had an Army of 12 Companies of 80 Men each together with a Fleet of 8 Ships Both these tho' the one a Heathen and the other a Christian agreed very well together put things into very good Order and made a Treaty That when the City of Columbo both the old and the new should be taken the King should have the Old one for his Residence and the Fort Negombo lying 8 Leagues from thence towards the Kingdom of Candi in his full Possession The Dutch for their part should have the new City of Columbo without any Molestation with all the other Fortisications they were already possest of and besides this should have Priviledge to Trade in any part of the Kingdom whatsoever with its Inhabitants The City of Columbo being taken at last by the Dutch Admiral Ryclof Van Goens the above-mentiou'd Heer Vander Hulst being shot Dead in the Trenches and by the Assistance of the King's Forces who did not suspect any Falshood after the Treaty made The Heer Van Goens having gather'd together the King's Army under pretence of giving them a Treat and the Streets being filled with them he sets all his own Men upon them for what Reason I cannot tell who cut the best part of them in pieces and put the rest to flight The King whom they thought to have taken Prisoner made his escape upon his Elephant and got over high Mountains Rocks and Wildernesses and at last into his Kingdom of Candi where being secure he swore never to forget the Falshood and Treachery of the Christians but to continue in a perpetual War and Enmity against them And in that he hath so constantly kept his Resolution that in these 28