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DUTCH HISTORY, &C. 411 «  owing to the Establishment of the Commercial Monopoly ^—^ Transactions in Sumatra. — Search for Gold and Pepper defeated. — Conduct of the Dutch in the Spice Islands. — They completely enslave them. — The Natives are scarcely acquainted with them, when they are desirous to be rid of them. — They inveigle the Native Princes into Treaties, conferring upon themselves the exclusive right of buying Cloves. — -Revolt of the People ofBanda in l6l5. — Their se- cond Revolt in 1620, and total subjugation. — Massacre of the English at Amboyna, — Revolt of the People of Amboyna and Ternate. — Executions. — Revolt in l650. — Conduct of Vlaming^ the Governor of the Moluccas. -^-Destruction of Clove Plantations became too 'productke.'—Execufion of Twenty Nobles. — Execution of the gallant Terbile and others. — Execution of John Pays, a Christian Chief.-^ Murder of the Prince Saydi. — Murder of the King of Gi- lolo and his Family. — Earthquakes* and Epidemics affiict Amboyna. — The People of the Moluccas finally submit t» the Dutch Yoke.— The Ruin of Celebes involved in the Fate of the Moluccas. The history of the Dutch empire in the" Indiaa Archipelago must be narrated at greater length than that of the Portuguese, as it is more import- ant and better known, and as the influence of the Dutch nation has been not only more extensive, but of longer continuance. The inhabitants of the Low Countries, driven from the ports of Spain and Portugal, and deprived, by the union of those kingdoms, of the beneficial commerce which they carried on in distributing throughout Europe the productions of the East,