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OF THE ARCHIPELAGO. 439 ere of Amboyna, an affair of European history, which it is not my province to relate. In itself a transaction sufficiently execi*able,and affording, per- haps, the most revolting and hateful example of the consequences of the commercial rivalry of Euro- pean nations, in enormity, it falls far short of many of the calamities inflicted by the European nations on the natives of the country. The insurrections of the people of Ternate continued down to the year l6c38, when assuming a more formidable as- pect, the presence of the governor-general was twice thought necessary. The Dutch used the king of Tornate, whom they had in their hands, as the tool of their views ; and this prince, with an in; incerity to be expected in his situation, secretly encouraged and abetted the resistance of his subjects. One of the bravest of. these, Louhou, the governor of a distant pro- vince, exhausted by long resistance, and deserted by his people, made his peace with the Dutch, and came over with his family. He, his mother, sis- ter, and brother, were perfidiously seized and be- headed 1 From this time, until the termination of the re- sistance of the people of Ternate, the noblest per- sons of the country were seized in numbers, and executed without mercy. Tuhikabdssi, a chief of Amboyna who had made a long resistance, was at length induced to surrender himself. He was exe-