nd provided? and where have they
their factory?" He answered that the ship about which the inquiry
is made is one of the five which came with this witness when they
seized the said forts of Ambueno and Tidore. The captain was a certain
Gertiolfos, a native of Olanda. He set sail from Yncussen with money
and provisions for only two years. He has been cruising about these
islands for ten months, and in the opinion of this declarant the said
ship carries at present forty seamen, more or less; while the exact
number of the forces in the said ship will be stated by Costre and
Pitri, since they came as seamen in her. This declarant does not know
that they carry more arms than are needed to arm all the men on board
her. Their weapons are muskets, arquebuses, and half-pikes. When this
declarant went aboard the ship, it seemed to him she had twenty-nine
or thirty pieces of artillery. As for her provisions they get them in
places where they have factories. He does not know how much gunpowder
they carry, except that they came out from Olanda and Jelanda provided
with it.

He was asked what treaties they had with the king of Tidore and the
king of Terrenate, and what oaths the king of Tidore had made to them;
he replied that the treaty which they had made is of the following
nature: The king of Tidore at the time when they took this fort
told the commander of the fleet, who was called Cornieles Bastian,
that they should leave here forces and that he would build a fort
where these might be kept, so that if Portuguese or Castilians came
they might be able to defend the country; while he would assure them
that the country should be for the Dutch. The commander answered that
he had not a sufficient force to be able to leave any to defend the
country; and the said king asked him to leave three or four Dutchmen,
that they might carry on their trade and barter. When the commander
asked with what security he could leave them, and what the other would
do, the said king then caused the books of his Mahometan religion to
be brought; and, laying his hands upon them, made an oath after his
custom that he would protect, favor, and defend the Dutch as if they
were his own sons. In the same manner he swore that he would sell
cloves to no people except to the Dutch, unless extreme need of food
should force him to sell them to some other people, in which case he
would not sell them except to Java. In this manner was carried out that
which is contai