AMBOYNA

AMBOYNA, an island of the E. Indies, lying between the Molucca isles and those of Banda, in $126^\{\backslash circ\}$ E. long. and $3^\{\backslash circ\}\; 40\text{'}$ S. lat.

In this island, which is about seventy miles in circumference, the Dutch have a strong fort, garrisoned by seven or eight hundred men. What makes it the more remarkable, is the cruel usage and expulsion of the English factors by the Dutch, in the reign of K. James I.