The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-10
TIE PASSING OFANATTOE,
After g. Hundred Years Of Continual
Warfare Achin Submits


South Aries, China and the Philip
pines are rot the only countries where
war is in progress. In different parts ef
the world campaigns Of long standing
are being carried on daily. Some Of
them haze never been heard Of in this
country; others have been forgotten.
Under the later head comes Achin,
where for years the Dutch have been
striving to subjugste the natives, 3
race SO important that at one time its
rulers received embassies from the
greatest poeentates in Europe, that Of
Eogland included.
Aohin is probably the most war rid
den State in tie world. For 8 hundr-
years 1t has known but little peace,
fgss with one land, then Vith another,
but principally with the Dutch. The
ED Of thls prosracsed war is, however,
believed to be within sign at last.
During the lsst three years the Dutch
have won repeated victories. Batoeilik,
the strongest fortified garrison Of the
Acainese, is hard pressed, and its
fall is expected to result IN the sur
render Of the natives.
A race tia: can resist for q number
of years we'll organized invasion Of
European troops is worthy Of some
attention. fhe country is situated IN
The north Of Sunstra. 1t is the only
State in the island that still remains
independent of the Dutch, but, IS al
reauy fvrohadoWed, lGs lndepend-
ence appears to he noH doomed. The
population numbers about 328, 600.
B-fore It's decline, which cjmmenc
/ ed early in the eighteenth century,
hchin was in close touch commercially
with England. 1t was the port Of Achia
that London merchants directed their
first etfo1ts toward securing trade IN
lhe Indies. Qaeen Elizabeth sent con
| fdential communications to the King
Of Achin by special envoy, and James
I also cerrespondtd with the regining
monarch, Who lived in such luxrious
style that be had mine hundred state
elephants. To this day there stand
near the gate of the Kings palace 3
couple Of brass cannon OF extraordinary
size. They were present from James
I to the ruler of Achin. Tney still
bear the founders name and the date
leg,bly inscribed upon them.
So considerable, IN fact, was Achin's
one time power that to reduce Malscca
it fitted out an armada of no fever
than FIVE hundred ships, hundred Of
which were larger than any then used
in Europe. The ships carried sixty
thousand men, with the King himself
in canmand.
Moreover, at ore time, Achin pro-
duced more gold than any other eoun-
try in the east, excepting perhaps
japan. One chronicler fixes the an
nual output at $4,000 ounces. Fol
fftyeight years female sovereigus re.
igned, and the foreign residents in
Achin believe, thought erroneously,
that the Queen Of Shebs vas Queen Of
Achin.
The Achinese employ minted money,
including a gold coin stamped with
Arabic characters called mas.
Great stretches of the interior have
not yet been explored, but from the
seaHard two gigantic volcanic noun.
tairs rising to height Of about II, ,OOO
feet are visible.
Though oncs powerful enough tc
drive the Portugues out Of the island
and to have feet and an army that
were the envy Of lager countries. Achin
has slowly Grifted into the limbo OF
forgotten Safes, and now appears de-
stined to disappear from the map a.
| together.