^8 COMMERCE WITH ceedings. " All this," says he, " I bore with great patience." Then he told us with very great con- cern, how they fired several of their great shot at the queen-mother, which frightened her so, that ever since she continued distracted, and that they would have taken her prisoner, for what reason he could not imagine. " This," says he, " I had not patience to bear." He likewise told us of one Captain Cock- bum, and some others, whose names I have for- gotten, who were taken prisoners, and put to death, and the manner of their suffering. " But," continues he, " this is not at present our affair."*
- Voyage to Borneo, p. 74. — Captain Beeckman'sown ob-
servations on this subject, and the candid account he renders of the judicious measures he pursued, are so apposite, that I cannot refrain from quoting them, and venturing to o£Fer his example as a model of the policy which ought, in all pa- rallel cases, to be followed with the natives of this country.
- ' During our stay here," (at Banjarmassin) says he, "jive had
^reat plenty of fish, fowl, potatoes, yams, cucumbers, deer, goats' flesh, &c. brought to our door every morning early, in small boats, by women, of whom we bought what we wanted, and that at a very reasonable rate. This was they owned the greatest opportunity they ever knew of getting so much money in so short a time ; for, when the English factory was there before, there was always such enmity and inveterate hatred between them, that the natives declared they never carried to them the tenth part of what they did us, being willing to have as little to do with them as possible. It is most certain they had a great hatred against all that belong- ed to that factory, and even the whole English nation^ for their sake, which made us meet with more difficulty than
