Hamilton’s account cf the east indies.

herfelf, though thofe that demanded it, affured him that they came to demand it bythe Queen’s order, and offered their receipt of it in her name; but he, being morepofitive than wife, continued obftinate in his refufal, upon which the Queen gave himan invitation to court; and he, to appear great there, carried two of his council, andi'ome others of the factory, with moft part of the military belonging to the garrifon,and by ftratagem they were all cut off, except a few black fervants, whofe heels andlanguage faved them from the maffacre, and they brought the fad news of thetragedy.

Tegnapatam, where the Dutch have a factory, lies about twelve leagues to thefouthward of Aujengo. That country produces pepper, and coarfe cloth calledcatchas: but Colicha, which lies between the middle and weft point of Cape Comerin,affords the belt cloth of that fort, befides tamarinds in abundance ; but the road isfoul. It alfo produces fait; but neither the Englifh nor the Dutch have any com-merce or traffic there. And clofe by Colicha, at the faid middle point, there is afinal 1 cave or harbour that can fecure fmall veffels from all winds and weather. It hasa clean fandy bottom, and three fathoms in it at low wather. Four leagues off' thecape, in the fea, there is a fmall fmooth rock bare at low water, and ffiews itfelf likethe back of a whale. About one hundred paces from it, on all fides, there is twenty-eight fathom water; and the fea feldom breaks on it, which makes it the moredangerous. I knew a {hip that rubbed her fide on it, before thofe on board could dis-cover it, though they looked out for it.

Manapaar lies to the north-eaftward of Cape Comerin, about eight leagues diftant,and the Dutch have a factory there, Handing on an high ground about a mile fromthe fea. And about io leagues more northerly is Tutecareen, a Dutch colony, thoughbut fmall.

Tutecareen has a good fafe harbour, by the benefit of fome fmall iflands that lye offit. That country produces much cotton cloth, though none fine; but they bothItain and die it for exportation. This colony fuperintends a pearl fiffiery, that lies alittle to the northward of them, which brings the Dutch Company 20,000 1 . yearlytribute, according to common report. There are feveral villages on the fea-ffiorebetween Tutecareen and Coil, but none in any account for traffic. This Coil is a pro-montory that fends over a reef of rocks to the ifland of Zeloan, called commonlyAdam’s Bridge.

That reef of rocks has fo little water on them, that the fmalleft boats cannot paftbut at an ifland called Manaar, which lies almoft mid-way between Zeloan and Coil,and that paffage has not above fix feet water on it, fo that none but fmall veffels canpafs that way ; and they inuft unlade, and pay cuftoms to the Dutch who refideat Manaar, and, after the veffel is haled over the bridge, they take in their cargoagain.

The Dutch have fortified Manaar, and make ufe of it for a prifon for Indian princeswhom they can overpower or circumvene, when they are fufpected of making trea-ties contrary to their intereft, or to fuch as would willingly reaffume their loft freedom,by breaking the unjuft yoke of the Company’s tyranny, perhaps drawn on thein-felves by too much faith or credulity; for that honeft Company has always had amaxim, firft to foment quarrels between Indian kings and princes, and then piouflypretend to be mediators, or abitrators of their differences, and, always caft in foine-thing into the fcale of juftice' to thofe whofe countries produce the belt commodi-ties for the Company’s ufe, and lend the affiflance of their arms to him who is f°qualified by the product above mentioned, and, at the conclufion of the war, make