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thus surrender the Fort would fight till they died, boasting 

 presumptuously and mightily about their force, which they 

 said still consisted of three hundred European soldiers in the 

 Fort, and that not more than one black, a Canarese, was killed, 

 and uttering other blustering words. Hereupon the Com- 

 mander again and often advised them to surrender their Fort, 

 promising them favourable conditions, and to think of what 

 they were doing, as he intended to attack the fort in the 

 morning at break of day, and, with God's help, to capture it, 

 when he would kill every one he found therein. But 

 notwithstanding, they still persisted in their brag and bluster. 

 The Commander allowed them therefore to return ashore 

 with the Fiscal Gerard Herbers, and to remain the night in 

 our guard-house until his arrival next morning. 



May 2. — In the morning at sunrise everything (as before 

 mentioned) was ready for the storm, the soldiers and sailors 

 were all landed in order, and the Commander came with two 

 companies of soldiers to our works. There then appeared 

 on the shore a padre with another person carrying a flag of 

 truce. This person being admitted into the presence of the 

 Commander and asked what he wanted, said he had come 

 there to surrender the Fort to His Honour, but on condition 

 that all the Portuguese Mestices and their slaves, with their 

 goods and chattels, be allowed to go to such places as the 

 Commander should think right. The Commander thereupon 

 replied that if he came to deliver the Fort to him he ought to 

 produce the keys, whereupon the aforesaid padre (named 

 Bernardus) said that if the Commander be pleased to allow 

 them to take with them the Cartas they were prepared to send 

 at once for the keys. This was done. As regards the Car las 

 the Commander said that they must remain in the Fort and 

 serve us as they had served the Portuguese, but the others 

 were allowed to go, with their goods, save arms and ammu- 

 nition of war, within a year to Tranquebar and Nagapatnam, 

 but not to Jaffnapatnam or any other place in Ceylon from 

 where they can again return to serve against us. When the 

 padre had gone into the Fort the Commander drew up hi s 



