Envoy-General
of Batavia, who was subsequently Chief of the factory at Surat. He had
not thought of trying them for some years after they came into his
possession, and one day when I was with him we shot many squirrels
which fell dead immediately on being struck.
The
King of Macassar is a Musalman, and he allows none of his subjects to
become Christians. The Jesuit fathers in the year 1656 found means to
build a fairly good church at Macassar, but in the following year the
King ordered it to be thrown down, as also that of the Dominican
fathers, who said mass for the Portuguese traders in the kingdom. The
parochial church, which was conducted by some secular priests, remained
standing until the Dutch attacked Macassar with a powerful fleet, and
by force of arms they compelled the King to drive all the Portuguese
out of his territories.1 The bad conduct of the Prince was
partly the cause of this war, to which the Dutch were also driven by
the resentment they felt in consequence of the Portuguese Jesuits
having opposed their embassy to China. Besides which they had committed
serious outrages against the Dutch at Macassar, having even flung on
the ground the hat of one of the envoys who had come to conclude a
treaty with the King. Thus the Dutch, unable to avoid resenting this
affront, resolved to unite their forces with the Bugis,2 who
were in rebellion against their King, and to avenge, at whatever cost,
so gross an insult. On the other hand, as I have said, the Dutch had
been much ill-used by the Portuguese Jesuits, who by their intrigues
prevented the Deputy whom the former sent to the Emperor of China from
accomplishing what he desired, and it happened in this way :
Towards
the end of the year 1658 the General of Batavia and his Council sent
one of the chiefs of the Dutch Company to the Emperor of China. On his
arrival at the Court with splendid presents, he sought to obtain access
to the Mandarins, who are the great nobles of the kingdom, so that by
their
1 In 1660 (Crawfurd, Did., 91).
2
Bouquins in the original. The Bugis are so called by the Malays, their
proper name is Wugi. They are the dominant race in Celebes (Crawfurd, Diet., 74 ; Ency. Brit., iv. 759 £.).
