Travels in India (Tavernier) 147.2

147.2

On the 13th of June the King of Macassar, named SUMBACO, through fear of seeing himself reduced to the last extremity, ordered a white flag to be hoisted on another fortress, from whence, surrounded by his wives, he watched the fight. During the truce which they granted him, he sent one of the highest of the nobles of his court to the General of the Dutch fleet to ask for peace, which was only granted to him on condition that he would send an ambassador to Batavia, that he would drive all the Portuguese from the island, and that his subjects should no longer trade with them.