The _Pangeran_ now feigned friendship, and having enticed Broeck to a conference, made him prisoner and attacked the Dutch stronghold.

The garrison however held out until the governor-general returned with a strong force.

With this he stormed and destroyed the town of Jacatra and on its site erected a new town, as the seat of the company's government, to which the name Batavia was given.

From this time the Dutch had no rivalry to fear in Java.

The conquest of the whole island was only a question of time, and the "pearl of the Malay Archipelago" has from 1620 to the present been the richest and most valuable of all the Dutch colonial possessions.