Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0482
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[Page 482]
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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