Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1727 edition. Excerpt: ... It has the Benefit of a good River, but being but eight Leagues from Atcheen, it has no Trade. CHAP. XLIV. Treats o/Java, and'the I/lands near if, with an Recount of the Garifons and Factories settled on that IJland by the Dutch, the Product and Commerce tf/Java, Bally, Lombock, Flores, Solore, Leolana, Panterra, Miscomby, Timore, Banda and Molucca;, Islands, and the Islands of Celebes their 'Product, Extent and Commerce. ND now having ended my Tour round /l Sumatra, I must return to the Southward, and travel to the Eastward of Sumatra, and to the Southward of the AEquator, among those famous Islands; and Java being )&e vvestmost, I begin there, and march EastWard among Islands far from any Continent. Princes Island is close to the West Point _of Java. It has a Chanel between it and JaW, but there is some Danger in it. There jre no Inhabitants on it; but there are three /laces that afford good Water, and Wood enough for Ships bound out of the Streights of Sunda to Europe. There are several other Islands in the Streights, as Caccotoa, Daars, in the W ay, the Button and Cape, and several others without Name. The The first Place of Commerce on the Weft End of Java, is the famous Bantam, where the English and Danes had their Factories flourishing till Anno 1682. at which Time the neighbourly Dutch fomented a War between the old King of Bantam and his Son, and because the Father would not come into their Measures, and be their humble Slave, they struck in with the Son, who was more covetous of a Crown than of Wisdom. They, with the Assistance of other Rebels, put the Son on the Throne, and took the old King Prisoner, and sent him to Batavia; and, in 1683. they pretended a Power from the new King to send the Englijh and Danes a packing, ..."
