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NOTES ON PIRAOY IN EASTERN WATERS
1683) to surrender Formosa and to retire into honourable captivity at Pekin with the title of Prince (Duhalde, I, 92). In the Factory Records (China and Japan, vol. 2) it is stated that Simponcan, King of Tywan, was defeated by the Tertar Admiral Sego, (or Sbih Bang, see Le Ung Bing, p. 372), and so compelled to give up Formosa. A letter from Messrs. Mose and Dubois to the Madras Council dated 30th December 1686 (Letters to Fort St. George) says that Formosa was conquered by the then Governor of Amoy called "Jonkon Tolloyaw." Maogowan (p. 533) says that the Chinese commanders were Shi-lang and Yau K'i-shang and that they were assisted by the Dutch.
886. Four or five Dutchmen, with their families," prisoners for many years to Coxsing" were released by the Tartars, when they took Formosa, and sent in the English ship Delight to Siam (Samuel Baron to Madras, date Siam, 15th Nov. 1684).
837. Before they took Formosa, the Chinese heard that there were gold mines in the eastern part, so, on its reduction, they sent an expedition for their discovery. The commander failing to find the mines, but seeing some ingots in the huts of the peasants, invited the latter to a feast, made them drunk, and cut their throats. In reprisal, the natives raided the Chinese portion of Formosa and did much damage (Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, XVIII, 426).
In 1687 Captains Williams and Howel, Englishmen in the service of the King of Siam, were ordered to expel a number of Chinese who, driven from their country by the Tartars, had taken refuge in Cambodia and maintained themselves by piracy. The two captains carried their prisoners to Macao and handed them over to the Tartar authorities (Collection of Voyages, by Capt. William Dampier, printed by James and John Knapton, 1729, Vol. II. pp. 106-106).
Dutch. 888. In 1672 the East India Company sent out the Experiment (Captain Limbrey) and the Return (Captain Delboe) to open a trade at Taiwan in Formosa and in Japan. The Ex. periment was captured by the Dutch on the 9th December. The Return arrived at Nagasaki on the 29th June 1873, but was refused permission to trade on the grounds (cleverly suggested by the Dutch) that the King of England had married a Portuguese Princess (see para. 268 above), and that the cross on St. George's ensign argued a similarity of religion with the Portuguese (Bruce II, 347-8). As war had been declared before the capture of the Experiment, this was not technically piracy, but as it ignored the usual allowance of time for warning, it was a piece of sharp practice, very much like piracy.
Arabians. 889. In February 1674 Muscat Arabs attacked Bassein and plundered the houses and churches (Orme, Hist. Fragments, p. 46; Anderson, p. 180).
840. On the 16th January 1677-8, Henry Gary wrote to the Company that a ship under English colours (Captain William May) and belonging to Callian, in Sivaji's territory, had been seized by Arabs in the Road of Cong. These Arabs had four ships cruising off Babelmandeb to intercept the Portuguese ships bound for Meoca (Hedges, II, 327).
Malays. 841. In 1675 & small English vessel (Captain Samuel Ware) was taken off Queda by some pirates known as Saleeters. Ware and two of his men were killed. These Saleeters were, apparently, natives of the coast islands of Malacca (see para. 405 below), and were accustomed to cruise off Junkooylon and Pulo Sambila (Bowrey, pp. 237, 262).
342. In April 1677 the Agent, Mr. Samuel White, and a number of other Englismen were murdered at Bantam by Javanese pirates (Bruce, II. 404).
Malabarese. 348. In 1674 Dr. John Fryer was present at the rescue of a Dutoh ship from Malabar pirates between Vingurla and Goa. Later on, in 1676, his ship was attacked near Goa by a
