The Dutch were brought two or three days journey from the Fort into the Countrey they call Owvah:  and there were placed with a Guard about them, having but a small allowance appointed them; insomuch that afterwards having spent what they had, they perished for Hunger.  So that of about ninety Hollanders taken Prisoners, there were not above five and twenty living when I came away.

[Several Embassadors detained by the King.] There are several white Embassadours, besides other Chingulay People, by whom the Dutch have sent Letters and presents to the King whom he keeps from returning back again.  They are all bestowed in several houses with Soldiers to Guard them:  And tho they are not in Chains, yet none is permitted to come to them or speak with them; it not being the custom of that Land for any to come to the speech of Embassadours.  Their allowance is brought them ready dressed out of the Kings Palace, being all sorts of Varieties, that the Land affords.  After they have remained in this condition some years, the Guards are somewhat slackned, and the Soldiers that are to watch them grow remiss in their Duty; so that now the Ambassadours walk about the Streets, and any body goes to their houses and talks with them:  that is, after they have been so long in the Countrey, that all their news is stale and grown out of date.  But this liberty is only winked at, not allowed.  When they have been there a great while, the King usually gives them Slaves, both men and women, the more to alienate their minds from their own Country, and that they may stay with him with the more willingness and content.  For his design is, to make them, if he can, inclinable to serve him.  As he prevailed with one of these Embasssadours to do for the love of a woman.  The manner of it I shall relate immediatly.

There are five Embassadors whom he hath thus detained since my coming there; of each of whom I shall speak a little, besides two, whom he sent away voluntarily.

[The first Embassador there detained since the Authors remembrance.] The first of these was sent up by the Hollanders some time before the Rebellion against the King; Who had detained him in the City.  After the Rebellion the King sent for him to him to the Mountain of Gauluda whither he had retreated from the Rebels.  The King not long after removed to Digligy, where he now keeps his Court, but left the Embassador at Gauluda remaining by himself, with a Guard of Soldiers.  In this uncomfortable condition, upon a dismal Mountain void of all society, he continued many days.  During which time a Chingulay and his Wife falls out, and she being discontented with her Husband to escape from him flies to this Embassadors house for shelter.  The woman being somewhat beautiful, he fell greatly in love with her.  And to obtain her he sent to the King, and profered him his service, if he would permit him to enjoy her company, Which the King was very willing and glad to do, having now obtained that which he had long aimed at, to get him into his service.