Note 18 — CHAP. XXIV.
Reading edition
The latter gentleman, in the year 1783, sailed from the Texel to the Molucca islands; where, as commander in chief, he killed the king of Pongue, with his three sons, and 600 men; and dethroned also the king of Salangoo, whose land he captured for the Dutch East-India Company, besides taking 127 pieces of cannon, &c. ↑