[They violently took away Carriers goods.] Formerly, in this Kings Reign these wild men used to lye in wait, to catch Carriers people, that went down with Oxen to trade at the Sea-Ports, carrying down Betelnuts, and bringing up Cloth, and would make them to give them such things as they required, or else threatning to shoot them.  They fearing their lives, and not being able to resist, were fain to give them what they asked; or else most certainly they would have had both life and goods too.  At which this King sent many Commanders with their Soldiers to catch them, which at length they did:  But had not some of themselves proved false to them, being incouraged by large promises, they could never have taken them.  The chief being brought before the King, promising amendment, were pardoned:  but sent into other Woods with a Command not to return thither any more, neitheir to use their former courses.  But soon after their departure, they forsook those Woods they were put into, and came to their old haunt again, falling to their former course of Life.  This the King hearing of, and how they had abused his Pardon, gave command either to bring them dead or alive.  These Vaddahs knowing now there could be no hope of Pardon, would not be taken alive, but were shot by the Treachery of their own men.  The heads of two of the chiefest were hanged on Trees by the City.  And ever since they have not presumed to disturb the Countrey, nor the King them he only desiring their quiet, and not to be against him.

[Hourly Vadahs trade with the people.] About Hourly the remotest of the Kings Dominions there are many trade with the of them, that are pretty tame, and come and buy and sell among the people.  The King once having occasion of an hasty Expedition against the Dutch, the Governour summoned them all in to go with him, which they did. [One made to serve the King.] And with their Bows and Arrows did as good service as any of the rest but afterwards when they returned home again they removed farther in the Woods, and would be seen no more, for fear of being afterwards prest again to serve the King.

[Their habit and Religion.] They never cut their hair but tye it up on their Crowns in a bunch.  The cloth they use, is not broad nor large, scarcely enough to cover their Buttocks.  The wilder and tamer sort of them do observe a Religion.  They have a God peculiar to themselves.  The tamer do build Temples, the wild only bring their sacrifice under Trees, and while it is offering, dance round it, both men and women.

[A Skirmish about their bounds.] They have their bounds in the Woods among themselves, and one company of them is not to shoot nor gather hony or fruit beyond those bounds.  Neer the borders stood a Jack-Tree; one Vaddah being gathering some fruit from this Tree, another Vaddah of the next division saw him, and told him he had nothing to do to gather Jacks from that Tree, for that belonged to them.  They fell to words and from words to blows, and one of them shot the other.  At which more of them met and fell to skirmishing so briskly with their Bows and Arrows, that twenty or thirty were left dead upon the spot.