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A HISTQRT OF SIAM 167

Before the war which resulted from the
describing
revolt of Cambodia, it may interest English readers to
learn that in 1618, on the outbreak of war between
England and Holland, hostilities were carried on by
these rival Powers in Siamese territory, regardless of such
details as breaches of neutrality. On July I7th, 1619,
manned 800
three Dutch men-of-war, by men, attacked
two British the and the in the
ships, Sampson Hound,
"
harbour of Patani. After fiue hours' eleuen of
fight,
the men of the Samson were slaine and fiue and
outright,
thirtie men of the same were
ship wounded, maymed
and dismembered. Jordan was of the
Captain Captaine
Samson, and did hang up a flagge of truce, and withall
sent Thomas Hackwell to with the Netherlanders
parlee
about a While the were
peace." negotiations going on,
no showed him-
Captain Jourdain, suspecting treachery,
self on the deck of the Sampson, whereupon the Dutch,
"
espying him, most treacherously and cruelly shot at
him with a musket, and shot him in the bodie neere the
heart, of which wound hee dyed within half an houre
after."*
The two were seized the and a
ships by Dutch, great
were taken were treated
many English prisoners. They
with numbers of them sent to
great barbarity, being
Japan in chains. The English on shore were only saved
from massacre the intervention of the of
by Queen
Patani.*
in 1620 but a deal of
Early peace was restored, great
and between the and
rivalry ill-feeling persisted English
the Dutch in Siam. $ The numbers of both nations were,
1
Purchas, His Pilgrims, vol. i.
* It is stated that Patani was at that time always ruled by a woman. There
was certainly a Queen of Patani in 1679, who can hardly have been the same one
mentioned here.
It is delightful to reflect that jealousy between rival Powers is utterly unknown
in Siam at the present time.