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481.
Some account of Batavia.

Nor any right to have any. Nutmegs have been in the same manner extirpated in all the Islands, except their native Banda, which easily supplys this world, & would as easily supply another, if the duch had but another to supply, of nutmegs however there certainly are a few upon the Eastern coast of New Guinea, a place on which the Duch hardly dare set their feet, on account of the treachery & warlike disposition of the natives, there may be also both Cloves & nutmegs upon others of the Islands far to the Eastward, for those I beleive, neither the dutch or any other nation seem to think it worth while to examine at all into.

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The town of Batavia  tho the Capital of the Duch Dominions in India, is so far from being peopled with Dutch men, that I may safely affirm that of the Europeans inhabiting it & its neighbourhood, not one fifth part are Dutchmen, besides these are Native, Portugese, Indians, & Chinese, the two last many times exceeding the Europeans in Number, of Each of these I shall speak seperately, beginning with the Europeans, of which there were some especialy in the troops of almost

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