The Governor Sent One Of His Slaves Home Along With
Me, To Inform The Prisoners Of This, And To Desire Them To Pay Me.
The 24th I was again sent for to court, where the Hollanders were
likewise; on which occasion the governor asked the Hollanders, whether
it were customary in their country to take a man prisoner for debt
without informing the king?
The Hollanders said, it was not. Whereupon,
forgetting his promise made only three days before, he commanded me to
liberate the prisoners immediately, although I reminded him of his
promise to no purpose; and he sent one of the king's slaves to take them
out of our house. I am satisfied this rigid course was taken on the
suggestion of the Dutch, induced by Lackmoy, the great Chinese
merchant, on purpose to prevent us from giving credit to the Chinese,
that we might be constrained to deal only with himself: and, as he is
provided by the Hollanders with all kinds of commodities, he will
entirely overthrow our trade, as we cannot now give credit to any one,
justice being refused to us.
Captain William Keeling arrived here from Banda on the 26th of August,
having laden there 12,484-1/2 cattees of mace and 59,846 cattees of
nutmegs, which cost him 9,10, and 11 dollars the bahar. The cattee
there weighs 13-1/2 English ounces; the small bahar of mace being ten
cattees, and the small bahar of nutmegs 100 cattees; while the large
bahar is 100 cattees of mace, or 1000 cattees of nutmegs:
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