found them here from the 13th of March to the 21ft o f April.
The natives o f this iiland took them in large nets, and boiled
the fat for the fake of the oil.
T he inhabitants o f Pulo Condore, fuppofed to be originally
o f Cochin-China, are fmall in ftature, o f dark complexion, long
vifaged, with black and lank hair, white teeth, thin lips, fmall
eyes, high nofes. Their religion is idolatrous; they worihip
chiefly the elephant and the horfe, flmilar to the objects of ado.
ration in Tonquin.
E n g l i s h S e t . In 1702 Allan Ketchpole, director o f the Englijh Eaß India
TLEMENTa
Company at Chufan, on the defertion o f that fettlement, made
an attempt to form one here. He engaged in his fervice a number
o f MacaJJars, who were to a it as foldiers, to aflift in building,
and to ferve during three years. At the end of the term he
bafely refufed to fulfil his contract. Thofe iflanders, remarkable
for the fidelity with which they execute all their agreements,
are as determined to revenge any injuries offered to them: in
the night they put to death Ketchpole, and mofl of the Englijh;
a few, on the firft alarm, efcaped in a boat. The MacaJJars regained
their liberty, and inflicted a mofl: juftifiable puniihment
on their perfidious mafter.
Here Dampier's crew was welcomed by the people coming
on board, and offering the free ufe o f their women during their
flay. This is a practice in Pegu, Siam, and other places in the
parts of India cis Gangem. Prior, in his Alma, is very humorous
on this fubjedt, in the fecond canto:
In China, Damper's travels tell ye,
(Lo o k in his index for Pagelli)
Soon
Soon as the Britilh (hips unmoor,
And jolly long boats row to ihore;
Down come the nobles o f the land,
Each brings his daughter in his hand j
Befeeching the imperious tar,
T o make her but one hour his care.
T h e tender mother (lands affrighted,
L e ft her dear daughter ihould be flighted j
And poor Mifs Y a y a dreads the lhame
O f going back the maid (he came.
O n returning to the eftuaries of the river o f Cambodia, after a C ia m p a .
fliort journey eaftward, we reach the fmall territory o f Ciampa, or
Sink Tboan, which extends about a hundred and fifty miles
along the ihore, the breadth does not exceed ninety. The aboriginal
people, called Loyes, are large, mufcular, and well made; L o y e s , a P eo -
their complexions tinged with red, their nofes fomewhat flatted; ri*‘.
their hair long and black; they have fmall whifkers, but fcarcely
any beards; their drefs, a fhirt and breeches of cotton, the laft
covered with a fort of petticoat of white cloth, fringed with
filk, according to the circumftance o f the wearer. They are governed
by a monarch who refides at Peneri, the capital o f the
country, in a mean palace, and with little ftate; he is in fa il a tributary
to the king o f Cochin-China, who fends a mandarine to re-
fide at the court as prefident o f the council, and without his ad-
yice nothing o f moment is done. The productions o f the
country are very few ; fome cotton, indigo, and bad filk, for
which they traffiek with the Chinefe. They are inferior to the
Cochin-Chinefe in their military, but excel them in naval affairs.
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