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 222 COMMERCE WITH English ; and botli vilified the Spaniards and Por- tuguese, while they committed acts of piracy and plunder upon the Asiatic traders, who had the temerity to venture upon a competition with them. All the nations of the Archipelago, or those Asiatic nations having an intercourse with it, whose go- vernments had vigour enough to resist their en- croachments, either expelled them from their coun- try, and refused to hold any intercourse with per- sons so little worthy of confidence, or placed that intercourse under the severest limitations. It will be a matter of curiosity, as well as instruction, to quote a few examples of the conduct pursued by the monopoly companies towards the native powers, and of the measures taken by the latter in con- sequence. Within fifteen years of their first ap- pearance in the seas of the Archipelago, the Eng- lish had established factories at Patani in the Pen- insula, at Achin, Ticao, and Jambi in Sumatra, at Bantam and Jacatra in Java, at Succadana and Banjarmassin in Borneo, in the Banda isles, at Ma- cassar in Celebes, in Siam, and in Japan. At all these, by their own recorded acknowledgment, the company was carrying on a gainful trade, of which they furnish us with the particulars. In after pe- riods they fomied establishments at Queda, Ligore, and Jehore, in the Peninsula, at Passumman, Sil- lebar, and Bencoolen, in Sumatra, at Japara in Java, at Balambangan in Borneo, at Camboja, at