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378.
Some account of Savu

very soon wormd out by the machinations of these artfull new comers who content with that did not attempt to settle themselves in the Island but only sent Sloops occasionaly to trade with the Natives  by whoom they were often cut off  as often I suppose as they cheated them in too great a proportion  this However & the probably increasing value of the Island at last temptd them to try some other way of securing it & running less risques which took place about ten years ago when a treaty of Alliance was signd between the five Radjas & the duch Company 
[Margin note]  Contracts
in consequence of which the Company is yearly to furnish each of these kings with a certain quantity of fine linnen & silk  Cutlery ware &c, in short all species of goods which they he wants  all which is deliverd in the form of a present accompanied with a certain Cask of Rack which the Radja & his principal people never cease to drink as long as a drop of it remains

in return for this each Radja agrees that neither he nor his subjects shall trade with
 

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