bacaia

Updated: June 23, 2025

But as his plantations, with numerous detached bodies of his subjects, were entirety exposed to the power of the Deys, it seemed absolutely requisite that his friendship with that tribe should not be affected by any further acts of kindness to a people so inimical to their views. Hence the suspicions of the colonists became naturally excited against Bacaia.

James Holman - A Voyage Round the World, Volume I : Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832

Under these circumstances the settlers became seriously alarmed respecting the nature of the intercourse which might become necessary to the policy of Bacaia, the king of the larger island, and from whom they had received many proofs of friendship, in secret supplies of fuel and water.

James Holman - A Voyage Round the World, Volume I : Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832