notes the word used by the inhabitants of the
Moluccas for "one and the same thing" as "siama siama."

[18] A ship captain whom Dampier (see chapter xviii) met at Achin
on the island of Sumatra. Dampier and two of his companions started
for Nicobar with him, but rough weather forced them to abandon the
voyage. He importuned Dampier to make a voyage with him to Persia, but
the latter declined, preferring to go to Tonquin with Captain Welden.

[19] Captain Philip Carteret, commander of the royal British sloop
"Swallow," in his account of his circumnavigation (1766-69) devotes
his eighth chapter to "Some account of the Coast of Mindanao,
and the Islands near it, in which several Mistakes of Dampier are
corrected." See this account in Collection of Voyages (printed for
Richard Phillips, London, 1809), iii, pp. 352-361.

[20] Referring to the Basilan group, ten miles from the Mindanao coast;
the largest island is Basilan, which has an area of four hundred
and seventy-eight square miles, and there are forty-four dependent
islands (fifty-seven, according to U. S. Gazetteer). (See Census of
Philippines, i, p. 283.)

[21] Probably the small island of Guimaras, which lies between Negros
and Panay, and which is approximately as described by Dampier. Sebo
is, of course, Cebu; but Dampier evidently means Negros Island. The
bay was Igan.

[22] Dampier here describes the bejuco, or rattan.

[23] The name Mindoro is by some writers derived from mina de oro,
as it was supposed to be rich in gold. In the document showing that
the Spaniards took formal possession of it (for reference to which
see our VOL. III, p. 105, note 32), it is called Luzon le menor
("Luzon the less;" cf. p. 74).

"This island was formerly called Mainit, and the Spaniards gave it
the name of Mindoro, on account of a village called Minolo, which
lay between Puerto de Galeras and the harbor of Ylog." (Concepcion,
Hist. de Philipinas, viii, p. 8.)

[24] From 1603 the English, as well as the Dutch, had a factory at
Bantam for the purchase of pepper, which they maintained for eighty
years. In 1683 the Dutch sent a considerable force from Batavia and
expelled the English from Bantam; the latter, after being baffled at
Achin, made a settlement at Bencoolen (1685), where they built Fort
York. This site proved insalubrious, and in 1714 its successor, Fort
Marlborough, was erected, away from the river. In 1824, Bencoolen
and the factories dependent on it were given