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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

parted with them and that they had agreed more with our Climate so that we could have them in Europe Our business being done we left Bali And quickly gained the Cost of Great Java from which Bali lyes but eight Leagues distance and in eight days Sail we arrived at Balavia again We had all the way the sight of the Island we left and sometimes could see over it in a very clear day it not being above sixteen Miles in compass When we came to Shore I was very kindly receved and placed into the Hospital at Batavia there being just then a vacancy by the death of the chief Surgeon of that place the Council was pleased to choose me in his stead and to give me the care of it Here I had five Masters Surgeons under me and my Station was every way much more agreable than hitherto it had been but that which pleased me the best was that I had both time and opportunity to serve God and tho' it was only the Reformed Religion that was exercised there yet I took a great deal of Satisfaction in going to serve God with them when their Assemblys met which was three times a Week But I could rather have wished there had been a Church of my own perswasion which is the same that Luther maintaind and profess'd for then I believe I should never have troubled my self to have come back into Holland again and I dare say that thousands more would willingly continue there rather than undertake such dangerous Voyages to come back if they could but have the free exercise of their Religion as they have in Holland where all Religions are tolerated and it was ever a wonder to me that the same liberty was not granted in Batavia which is as wisely and politically govern'd as any City in the World and keeps as good an order in all things notwithstanding the great variety of its Inhabitants having within it besides the Natives of the several parts of the Indies vast numbers of Turks Persians Tartars Chineeses Siamers Moors Japoneeses Armenians Arabians c. Yet is there no other Religion allowed but that of the Reformed and at their Assemblys are all the Soldiers obliged to be present of what perswasion soever they be and forced to be there every Sunday by Turns under the Eye of an Officer and then they put their Shoes on whereas they wear 'em but-rarely otherwise There are besides the Church in the Castle two other Churches where they Preach in the Portugueeze and the Maleysh Languages the first for the conveniency of the Burghers the other of the mixt Nations who generally speak that Language Yet for all this liberty of Religion is not given there are many hundreds who when their time is expired bind themselves a fresh rather than venture the danger of going home again tho' they lay their Religion aside for ever for 't The frequent news of of Ships being cast away and loosing one half of the Fleets and sometimes the whole ones increases their fears daily While I was at Batavia my self I sent a Letter to my Relations by one who intended to pass thro' Ulm where they lived And of this Fleet he went in half was lost by the way tho' he got safe home and to my great surprize brought me an answer to it himself about two years after that Just as I was preparing to come into Holland my self he told me he was come over again to end his days there for he found that the Air of his Native Country would no more agree with him While I was thus settled here I got very considerable practice among the Free-men besides my fixt employment and especially among the Chineeses whom I found by much the most generous sort of People and best to deal with It was common for them to give me three or four Rixdollars for letting of 'em Blood and forty or fifty Gilders for curing the least Wound But of all the Patients I ever had I cannot but mention one who for the odness of the Punishment which was inflicted on his Adversary is well worth the Relating I was once in a Chineese's house drinking of Tea which is drunk in great quantitys there in Tea-houses very good and very Cheap On a sudden two Chineeses fell to high words till at last one of 'em took a pot full of Boyling hot Water and threw it all upon the other and all Scalded his Face and some other parts I took the Man home and cured him in a few days for which he gave me thirty Rixdollars ready Money and did me all the kind services he could often inviting me to his house and treating me very civilly The other who had used him thus basely was Condemned to have twelve of the longest Hairs of his Beard pull'd out or else to pay thirty Golden Cubanz which is in value 300 Rixdollars each Cubanz being worth 10 Rixdollars and the Golden Coyn of the Great Mogul's but this Chineese being a Man of Substance chose rather to pay the Money than to part with so many precious hairs out of his Beard and they are all of them so fond of that Ornament that it would have been as Reasonable to have ask him for twelve of his Teeth Besides this he was obliged to defray all the charges my Patient had been at and to stand to all damages There was all this while a fine Ship preparing for a Voyage to Surat and I having a great desire to go that Voyage because it is lookt upon as very safe and hardly ever attended with bad Accidents I ordered my affairs so as to get leave to go Upon which I sent my things on Board the Gelderland for that was the name of the new Ship which I was to go in On Easterday in the Morning all things being ready we set Sail by break of day and took our farewell with three Guns but we reacht no further by night than the Island Onrust and for want of a Wind were forced to lye still there four days At last we weighed our Anchors having a small gale of Wind which carried us past the Isle Sumatra And as we came by the Island Engano it ceased and left us without a breath of Wind. Thus we left the Ship to run a drift and our Men were all idle for three or four days during which time we had Engano still in sight of us for we moved but very slowly In this while many of our Men took notice that one of our Souldiers for we had fourteen of them a Board besides Seamen a Venetian Named Nicolao used to be frequently with two Boys that belong'd to the Ship and those three would meet in private ever and anon The Boat-Swain took a particular notice of 'em and watcht 'em narrowly at last he discoverd the end of their Meeting and Surprized them in the Act of Sodomy Upon which he went and informed the Master of what had passed Immediately after the Venetian and both the

did not please him Upon which without more ado he gives Orders to Fire the Great Guns from the Castle upon the City and particularly that some of them should play upon his Fathers Quarters against which sixteen Pieces of Demi-Cannon were planted which were fired briskly upon him by his positive Orders and some of them too by his own hand Being thus satisfied that his Fathers Intentions were to Depose him he wholly forgot all Duty and sent him word by one of his Concubines that he did not reckon himself now bound to him in any Bond of Duty and that he would pay him no other Homage but Powder and Ball which he would not spare for he had enough of it and that should be at his service Besides the Message that had made him so desperate he relied much upon the strength of the Castle which was very well fortified with very good Walls lined with Earth like those of Batavia and very strong Bastions upon them besides very large Canals round them with Draw-Bridges Neither did he want Provisions or Ammunitions and the Bastions were provided with very good heavy Cannon But the number of his Men was not above three hundred yet with them he had resolved to stand it out to the last So that his Garrison was not so considerable as his Court which as it chiefly consists of Women according to the general Custom of Heathen Princes so he had of them no less than one thousand two hundred that were his Concubines With this continual Firing the City was miserably shatter'd and lookt like a Wilderness for every Man had got away that could and all the English and Danes together with the Nobility and the most considerable Inhabitants went over to the old King And having formed a considerable Body they went and besieged the Castle raised several Batteries and planted their best Cannon upon them and then fired briskly in their turn upon the Castle Notwithstanding all these preparations the young King remained undaunted and only applied himself to get supplies and support abroad and by Advice of two Dutchmen who were of his Party and who had formerly run away from Batavia to shelter themselves from Justice he resolves to send to the Company of Batavia for Assistance One of these Dutch-men was appointed for the Negotiation and immediately was let down from the Wall of the Castle and having pass'd the Canals in a little Boat that used to lye there he came to the Enemies Army thro' which he was unavoidably to pass but he being very ready in the Javan and Malleish Languages having been fifteen years in those Countries and having been Circumcised at his Abjuration of the Christian Religion he easily pass'd thro' all difficulties and came to the General at Batavia and by word of mouth without any further Credentials delivered his Message to him in the young King's name This was an opportunity which the Dutch had long wish'd for so that the Messenger needed no great Rhetorick or Art to induce them to take it by the forelock But immediately Orders were dispatched and the Forces had their Rendezvous appointed I my self had Orders to attend the Major General St. Martini's own person and was in the whole Expedition so that I may justly speak of the matter and be the more particular in the relation of it The Major General above mentioned commanded the whole Fleet and one Captain Harzing of Cassel had the whole command of the Land-Forces Both set out at one time as I said before the one march'd out straight upon Dangerang The Fleet went directly to Bantam Captain Hartzing was forced first to Attack Dangerang by which means he reckon'd he should have drawn off the old King and his Army from Bantam but found himself very much mistaken For the place made such a vigorous Resistance that it appeared they neither wanted necessary Assistance nor Courage We lost there a great many of our best Men insomuch that we found our selves forced to Intrench left they should have routed us quite so we made our Lines of Approach which we fortified with as good Pallisado's as we could and so secured our selves that the Enemy could not come at us In the mean while we continued our Approaches with all the diligence that might be till we came within Musket-shot of the Fort. There we made use of a cover'd way with which we came up close to the Enemies works and in some measure within them And having finished our Mines we set them on fire with a resolution that as soon as they should blow up to any purpose we would assault them One of our Mines made a breach that three or four Waggons might stand abreast in Upon which it was order'd we should immediately enter And so we did but so with much ado that we had reason to fear we must have retired but after a little resistance they seeing us pour in so thick upon them took their heels and most of them threw down their Arms. All this while we pursued them and made the most heavy slaughter amongst them that ever any History can shew For the Gates of their Castle or rather their Doors being so little that one could not go under them without stooping they were all forced almost to creep thro' them one by one and as they were all in a cluster and unarm'd to the number of near five thousand we fired continually upon them so that they lay like heaps of Stones one on another which made the most dismal fight in the World And to prevent the Air being infected with them we made our Blacks to carry them off and throw them in the River Dangerang Having gotten this Post we fortified our selves in the best manner we could for we were sure that we should not enjoy our rest there long and that we were to be upon our Guard In this six weeks time that we had besieged this place we had lost a great many Men and a great many were fallen sick by reason of the bad Water which had much of the tast of Salt-peter in it which made Captain Hartzing at a stand whether we should go on or not At last he thought it best for us to stay there till we could hear of the safe Arrival and Landing of our Fleet before Bantam which we did in a few days after Major General St. Martini being come before Bantam with twenty stout Men of War each of which carried between four and five hundred Men besides a hundred Fire-ships Tenders c. gave Orders for their Landing about two a Clock the next Morning But first he took a general Review of the Men and a Gill of Brandy was given to every one of the Soldiers and after that six and thirty of the lustiest Soldiers were provided with a good quantity of Powder and some hundreds of Sea-men were set out with Pole-Axes or Hatchets and eight or nine Hand-Granado's to each Man all which were to Land with the Army We lay