The 2d October, Sophonee Cossock, A
Merchant, Came In A Small Pinnace From Puloway, Accompanied By An
Orancay, To Confer On Trade With That Place.
The 22d, I went ashore,
accompanied by Mr Pring and Mr Bailey, to confer with the Dutch general,
concerning certain idle complaints made by them against our mariners.
I
found him and the president of their factory very impatient, calling us
insolent English, threatening that our pride would have a fall, with
many other disgraceful and opprobrious words.[134] Such was the
entertainment we received from that boorish general, named Garrat
Reynes, in his own house. He had formerly shewn the like or worse to Mr
Ball, on going aboard his ship at Banda: And four of our men, who took
passage with him from thence to Cambello, were brought all the way in
the bilboes, for no cause.
[Footnote 134: Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes? It was
Dutch policy to cry rogue first. - Purch.]
I went ashore on the 3d November, when Captain Jordan called together
the merchants, and sent for the orancay of Banda, whose letter he got
translated; the purport of which was, that, in regard to the ancient
friendship between them and the English, especially with Captain
Keeling, and provoked by the cruelty and injustice of the Hollanders,
their earnest desire was to trade only with the English for the spices
of Puloway, Puleron, and Nera, on condition that the English would
supply them with provisions, ordnance, and ammunition, and help them to
recover the castle of Nera, desiring that some person might be sent to
Banda, to confer with the orancays.
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