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OF THE ARCHIPELAGO. 403 who befriended the Portuguese from his hatred to the Mahomedan religion. The Portuguese provoked their enemies, and dis- gusted or persecuted their friends. Albuquerque gave the first example. Utimutis, on pretext of a conspiracy, was, with his son, son-in-law, and ne- phew, publicly and relentlessly executed by hiixi. Ninachetuan, two years afterwards, was deprived of his office unjustly, and publicly sacrificed himself on a funeral pile, a solemn ceremony, conformable, it seems, to the religion he professed. His suc- cessor, the Rc0a of Kampar, with hardly a suspi- cion against his reputation and fidelity, was put to death very soon after his accession to his office. By the same suspicious policy, Patiquiter^ a Java- nese chief, was driven into rebellion, and afterwards proved one of the most formidable enemies of the Portuguese power. Albuquerque, notwithstanding the violence of his proceedings in the case of Utimutis, pursued some politic measures for repeopling Malacca with strangers. He made a pompous display of mag- nificence, coined a gold, silver, and tin coin, and, after the manner of the East, dazzled the people by distributing money in a public procession, a juggle not without its influence on the imagina- tions and opinions of the people for whom he was legislating. The kings of the surrounding countries, from