[Footnote 387:  Named in some writers Pam or Pabang.—­E.]

In April, 1613, there arrived several junks from Cambodia and China; and in May I received letters from Siam, giving notice that the Globe had arrived there, and that sales were very brisk.  I was now busy in preparing a cargo for Japan; and expecting to do some good there with Chinese commodities, I borrowed 3000 dollars of the queen for three or four months, allowing six per cent. interest to the queen, and one per cent. to the treasurer.  We now received bad news from Bantam, stating that Campochina had been twice burnt down, and the English factory consumed full of cloth.  The Hollanders likewise had made great loss.  We were informed also of a large English ship in great distress at Pulo Panian, a great mortality being among her people.[388] Intelligence was also received that the military force of Acheen had besieged Johor.

[Footnote 388:  This was the Trades-increase.—­Purch]

The 12th July, the king of Pahan arrived at Patane, much against his will, accompanied by his wife, who was sister to the queen of Patane, and also by two sons.  He left his own country much oppressed by poverty, famine, fire, war, and rebellion.  He brought intelligence that the Acheeneers had taken Jahor, and had carried away all the ordnance, slaves, and every thing of value, Rajah Boungson and his children being made prisoners, and the king of Johor having fled to Bintam.  Several Hollanders also, who happened to be in a ship at Johor, were taken and slain.  The siege lasted twenty-nine days.  None of the grandees of Patane went to receive and entertain the king of Pahan; and the only attention paid to him, was by killing all the dogs in the place, as he has an aversion to dogs.  We saluted him with our small arms as he passed our house, which gratified him much, on which he invited us to visit him and trade at his town.

The 16th July we got intelligence that Captain Saris was at Mackian on his way to Japan; as also that Sir Henry Middleton had died on the 24th of May, of grief, as was supposed, for the situation of the Trades-increase, which lay aground with all her masts out, one side only being sheathed, as of thirty-three of her crew remaining most of them were sick.  An hundred English, a greater number of Chinese who were hired to work upon her, and eight Dutchmen, had all died of some strange sickness.  Captain Schot, belonging to the Dutch company, had taken the castle and island of Solor, with a great quantity of sandal wood.  In the Moluccas also they had done much injury to the Spaniards, and a hot war was there expected.  The 31st of July the king of Pahan visited our factory in great state, and made us great promises of kind entertainment in his country.  The 1st of August, the queen sent for us to court, to be present at a great feast given in honour of the king of Pahan; after which a comedy was acted by women, after the Javan manner, being in very antic dresses, which was very