This Country is governed by a Queen, under whom there are 12 Oronkeys, or great Lords. These act in their several Precincts with great Power and Authority. Under these there are other inferiour Officers, to keep the Peace in the several parts of the Queens Dominions. The present Shabander of Achin is one of the Oronkeys. He is a Man of greater knowledge than any of the rest, and supposed to be very rich. I have heard say, he had not less than 1,000 Slaves, some of whom were topping Merchants, and had many Slaves under them. And even these, tho' they are Slaves to Slaves, yet have their Slaves also; neither can a Stranger easily know who is a Slave and who not among them: for they are all, in a manner, Slaves to one another: and all in general to the Queen and Oronkeys; for their Government is very Arbitrary. Yet there is nothing of rigour used by the Master to his Slave, except it be the very meanest, such as do all sorts of servile Work: but those who can turn their hands to any thing besides Drudgery, live well enough by their industry. Nay, they are encouraged by their Masters, who often lend them Money to begin some trade or business withal: Whereby the Servant lives [easy], and with great content follows what his Inclination or Capacity fits him for; and the Master also, who has a share in the gains, reaps the more profit, yet without trouble. 

When one of these Slaves dies, his Master is Heir to What he leaves; and his Children, if he has any, become his Slaves also: unless the Father out of his own clear gains has in his life time had wherewithal to purchase their Freedom. The Markets are kept by these People, and you scarce trade With any other. The Moneychangers also are Slaves, and in general all the Women that you see in the streets; not one of them being free. so are the Fishermen, and others Who fetch Firewood in Canoas from Pulo Gomez, for thence those of this City fetch most of their Wood, tho' there is scarce anything to be seen but Woods about the City. Yet tho' all these are Slaves, they have habitations or houses to themselves in several parts of the City, far from their Masters Houses, as if they were free People.