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 without a greater force than that at Jourdain's disposal. Recognizing the hopelessness of his position the English Commander, when he had taken in supplies at an adjoining port, departed for Bantam.

After calling at Macassar on his way and establishing a small factory there, under the charge of George Cokayne, Jourdain reached the Javan port towards the end of 1613. A terrible disappointment awaited him here. He had expected to find a flourishing English factory with resources which would have enabled him to renew the struggle with the Dutch, but when he entered the port there were no signs of English life. On the Dutch factory the ensign was hoisted and struck twice in curious fashion, as if to give warning to the incoming ship. Jourdain, accepting the signal in this light, called his men to action and cast loose his ordnance to be ready for any emergency. After a period of suspense a boat came off from the shore and four Englishmen, "all of them like ghosts or men fraighted" clambered with difficulty on board. They brought with them lamentable tidings of the condition of the factory.

"I could not number any man of note, but was dead of the the number of 140 persons," wrote Jourdain, "and the rest which were remaining as well on land as aboard the Traders Increase were all sick, these four persons being the strongest of them, who were scarce able to keep on their legges."

In the presence of such a lamentable condition of weakness Jourdain had to dismiss all thoughts of further action Eastward and concentrate his attention on the question of saving the situation at Bantam. The whole of 1614 shipped away without any means offering of taking up the Dutch challenge. Mainly through the Agent at Macassar came