ineteen pieces of artillery to the fort. But another Sangley officer
hurried up with his regiment and attacked the Dutch with such fury
that they were obliged to leave the captured cannon behind, and in
disorder, take refuge within the fort. With the twelve Dutchmen they
put the fortifications in better shape, and their bombardment began
to be more effective. Finally they demolished the redoubt with all
the fortifications outside, and approached the fort so closely that
the men on the walls talked with those in the enemy's camp. They
demolished the second height of the wall, which had no terreplein;
the governor of the place was killed by a cannon-ball; and every day
the enemy came up to the walls to drink the health of the Dutchmen
and display other soldierly civilities.

They had now demolished all of the wall that rose above the
terreplein, and talked of making a general assault. The Dutch began
to be disheartened by the death of the governor and the loss of so
many soldiers; and when they saw the preparations for the assault
they talked of negotiating fur surrender, in order that they might
not be left exposed to the enemy's cruelty--since for that arrogant
tyrant it was the same to slay five or six thousand men as one. He
therefore at once replaced twice the number in a post [which had
lost its defenders], as he was so near to his island of Vicheu
where he kept the main body of his followers, from which they were
continually coming and going; and for every one who died a thousand
fresh men came to his camp. They now set out to engage the Dutch with
six hundred scaling-ladders, fourteen of their men being allotted to
each ladder; but the besieged hung out a white flag, and came out
to propose terms of surrender. This was granted with the condition
that only the property of private persons should be removed, and
that they must surrender intact the property of the [East India]
Company, which was done. It is computed according to the Company's
books, that with the military supplies and the artillery of the fort,
[this capture] had a value of five millions--an amount which will
not cause surprise to any one who knows that this place was the
magazine for the two richest traffics in the Orient, those of China
and Japon. The artillery found there [by the Chinese] included 150
pieces; the firearms, 4,000; and there were provisions and military
supplies for years. The slain in this war, for the entire period,
were: of the D