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EUROPEAN NATIONS. 223 Cochin-Chlna, at Pulo Condore, at Formosa, and in China at Chusan, Amoy, and Macao. From a few of these they were expelled by the rivalry of the Dutch, but from the greater number directly by the natives, and solely on account of their misde- meanour and arrogance, and the utter incompatibi- lity of their claims with the rights and independ- ence of those natives, who had hospitably received them. One of the most flagrant examples of their misconduct was displayed at Banjarmassin, in Bor- neo, in the year I7O6. Their settlement at Pulo Condore had just been cut off by their own native soldiers, at the instigation of the king of Cochin- China, naturally impatient of their neighbour- hood, when they formed one at Banjarmassin. Captain Hamilton gives the following account of the causes and circumstances of their being driven out of the latter : " Their factory was not half fi- nished before they began to domineer over the na- tives, who past in their boats up and down the ri- ver, which so provoked the king, that he swore revenge, and accordingly gathered an army, and shipped it on large prawSy to execute his rage on the factory and shipping that lay in the river. The company had two ships, and there were two others ^ that belonged to private merchants, and I was pretty deeply concerned in one of them. The factory receiving advice of the king's design, and the preparations he had made, left their factory