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Transcription

Palapanjan to goe into Bantam roade, which complaint this deponent
heard made to the said Agent who was then retourned from [?shara] in
distaste of the foresaid denials and abuses received from the dutch,
And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the twelveth hee saith that as hee this deponentw as comming
home this voyage in the Endymion, hee met the shipp the Jonathan
arlate in the Straights of Sundra comming from the coast of Cormandell
bound for Bantam, with a cargo of goods, And otherwise hee cannot
depose.

To the 13th hee cannot depose.

To the 14th hee saith hee cannot depose.

To the 15th hee deposeth that in the said yeares 1655 and 1656
hee this deponent in the East India's, heard it frequently reported
and said both by English and dutch that the dutch had destroyed
the Nutmegg trees, blowne up the fort with a mine, and quite
wasted the Island of Poleran arlate because the English were to
have it againe. [?yea] hee saith it was by many said and
reported that the ducth were soe studious to make an absolute
destruction, and render the said Iland wholly unproffittable to the
English, that not content with having soe laid it wast, they
caused the ashes of a certaine tree to be scattered and strewed
up and downe in the places thereof that were most
fertile for the growth of nutmegs, which ashes hee saith are said
to be of such nature and qualitie, that nothing will grow
where they are s[?p]red or strewed, And further saith that
formerly this deponent having speech and discourse with
the Generall of the dutch before Bantam, and this
deponent telling him that hee gheard that they had blowne up
the fort and destroed the trees in the said Iland, the said Generall
seemed to disacknowledge it, but a dutch Skipper being by
said to this effect, yes wee have donne it, at which confession of
his the said Generall (named the H[?aar] S[?chunten]) seemed distressed
and frowned upon the said Skipper. And otherwise hee cannot depose,
saving this deponent th[?en] said, that [?shortly] they would have
sunck the Iland it selfe into the sea if they could.

To the 16 hee saith that this deponent at Jambee in the yeare
1655 heard it reported and spoken by many natives and others
there, that the dutch who had alreadie got the greatest part
of the River of Jambee (on which the pepper trade lies) into their
possession, had proffered the king of Jambee the summe
of thirtie thousand Rialls of eight, to graunt them the whole
trade there, and that the said offer had bin accepted, in c[?ase]
an auncient Counsellor (a friend to the English) had not interposed,
and declared to the king the badd issue that might thereby ensue
by enslaving himselfe to the dutch and debarring all others from trade.
And this hee saith is there publique and notorious, And otherwise
hee cannot depose.

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