Were It Not For The Sabander And Admiral, And One Or Two More,
Who Are Natives Of Clyn, There Would Be No Living For Christians Among
Them, Without A Fort, Or A Strong House All Of Brick Or Stone.
We did
not torture Boyhoy, because he had confessed, but crissed him.
Among the other instruments of the devil on earth in Bantam, there was a
kinsman of the king, named Pangram Mandelicko, who kept one of the
incendiaries of our house under his protection. He came one day to our
house to buy cloth, when I desired him to deliver up this fellow into
our hands, telling him how good it would be for the country to root out
all such villains. "Tell them so," said he, "who have the government in
their hands, or care for the good of the country, for I do not." On
another time, wanting me to give him credit for cloth to the value of
six or seven hundred pieces of eight, because I refused to trust him, he
went away very angry, saying at the gate, it was a pity our house was
not again set on fire.
The regent or protector gave us all the houses and ground that joined
our inclosure, and had belonged to the incendiaries that undermined our
house, but made us pay enormously dear for the property. We bought also
from a Pangram, or gentleman, a house which came so near the door of
our pepper warehouse as to be very troublesome to us, so that now we had
a spacious yard.
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