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-any who had been condemned to death or the lash, and all 

 this to win over the King. 



After three days, to wit, on the 13th, these Ambassadors 

 departed with great ceremony. On the 15th two others were 

 received in the like manner ; these brought the tidings of 

 the death of the old King ; moreover, that the old King had 

 expressly enjoined on his successor to maintain good 

 relations with his Governor : for that he was well assured 

 that he was no deceiver as the former Hollanders had 

 been, &c. 



It was then, while these Ambassadors were there, that 

 that imposing funeral procession in memory of the deceased 

 King took place, which has been described above, on 

 the 23rd Dec, and they returned again on the 30th to 

 Candien with many presents. The Secretary Aalbos 

 accompanied them as Ambassador to congratulate the new 

 King, and to assure him that Gov. Pijl would act towards 

 him as he had promised the deceased King, his father, and 

 with other private instructions, which were delivered to him 

 by word of mouth. This Aalbos brought back with him 

 two Ambassadors from the King, who were received with 

 great pomp, as has been before said, and who brought with 

 them five elephants, which the deceased King had purposed 

 to send to his Governor, beside other presents, such as gold. 



/25. 2; nine Appuhamies, / 125. 13. 4; nine A'rachchies, / 56. 0. 8; 

 eleven " Manacayers," / 56. 2 ; three Vidanes, / 20. 18. 8; five (?), 



/40. 10; sixteen lascorins, / 283. 9. 8; seven lascorins of the Atapattu, 



/ 51 j eight smiths, / 37. 6; two Moors, / 13. 19; twenty-one servants, 



/52. 10; twenty-five coolies, / 62. 10. 



Other Dutch prisoners, probably released with Pieter Mollier and Hans 

 Steenbeek, or in the following- year (July 10, 1688), as gathered from 

 contemporary letters, were Mattheus G-omesz, Paulus Cornelis. Diedrick 

 Barrents, Thomas Homes, Frederick Ambrosias Penneguin, and Jurgen 

 Pietersen. 



Knox writing in 1681 believed the number of Dutch living in theKandyan 

 territory to be " about 50 or 60," Ambassadors, prisoners, runaways, and 

 malefactors — Portuguese, some "three score," English 16. The Dutch 

 Ambassador Jacob Cuycq Myerop, in a letter from Kandy, dated July 15, 

 1681, puts the total of Raja Sinha's detenus at 97, of whom 6 were French 

 10 English, and 25 Portuguese. — B., Hon. Sec. 



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