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After thanking His Majesty His Excellency requested that the 

 cinnamon stored in the Seven Corles might be delivered to us. 



It seems that on November 16, His Majesty again wrote to 

 Heer Maetsuycker, and that on December 3 following the 

 agent Cox came back with the conditions of peace, and some 

 of the prisoners ; whilst a vessel had to be despatched from 

 Batticaloa for the sick. 



Meanwhile Heer Maetsuycker wrote to Batavia at the end 

 of July of the same year, that although the treaty of 1638 

 differed in a few points from the present one, no trust 

 could be placed in Ragia, who would never abandon his 

 treacherous machinations, and therefore could only be 

 brought to reason by force. 



On December 27 Heer Maetsuycker sent a letter to His 

 Majesty thanking him for a jewel which His Majesty 

 had presented to him, at the same time communicating the 

 arrival of Heer Jacob van Kittensteyn, who came to replace 

 him in the Government. 



Thereafter having been informed by the agent of the 

 Company at Kandy of the King's displeasure, and of his 

 having six times contemptuously called us " Casta Hollan- 

 deze" declaring that we had broken the treaty, Heer 

 Maetsuycker was constrained to mention this in a letter to 

 His Majesty dated February 5, 1650, saying that our loyal 

 services deserved to be better appreciated. 



This was the last letter Heer Maetsuycker wrote to His 

 Majesty, as he left the Island on the 27th of the same month, 

 leaving instructions for his successor, showing that the 

 Netherlanders had conformed to Heer Westerwold's treaty in 

 every respect ; but that the King becoming jealous of our 

 successes over the Portuguese, viz., the capture of Batticaloa, 

 Trinconomale, and Nigombo, as also the town of Gale, instead 

 of delivering to us all the goods and merchandise mentioned 

 in the treaty, in liquidation of our claim for expenses, had 

 done his utmost to deprive us of them, by sending the 

 people from the cinnamon districts to the mountains, and 

 devastating the lands, hoping thus to discourage us, and, 



