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Some account of Batavia

every nation in Europe; the Germans however are so much the most numerous, that they 2 or 3 times exceed in number all other Europeans together. fewer English are settled here than of any other nation, & next to them French, the Politick Dutch well knowing that the English & French being maritime powers, must often have ships in the East Indies, & will demand & Obtain from them, the subjects of their respective Kings, will not enter either English or frenchman into their service, unless they give in their place of natavity to be in some place out of their own countrey, 
[Margin note] Irish
this trick, foolish as it is, was playd with us in the case of an EnglishIrishman, who we got on board, & they demanded for a dane, Offering to prove by their books that he was born at Elsinoor, but our Captn convinc'd by the mans Language what countrey man he was, refus'd to give him up so resolutely, that they soon ceasd their demands, notwithstanding the very great number of other Europeans, the Duch are political enough to keep all or near all the Great posts, as Raads of India, Governors, &c in
 

 

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