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ammunition, &c, used on behalf of His Imperial Majesty, by 

 cinnamon, pepper, cardamoms, indigo, wax, rice, and other 

 valuable goods and merchandise, the products of His Imperial 

 Majesty's dominions. 



The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 8th articles of this contract, 

 translated in the Portuguese, he caused to be read to the 

 officials, and translated into Singalese by the interpreter, 

 saying that the Company had never reaped that benefit, as 

 His Imperial Majesty had not acted up to this promise, but 

 had on the contrary after the conquest of Gale and Nigombo 

 in 1646, called in the assistance of the Portuguese, with men 

 and arms, against the Netherlanders, to wrest Nigombo from 

 them, and slaying their people ; thus proving that not they, 

 but His Imperial Majesty, was the first to break the contract. 

 It were best to pass over this unpleasant matter, as his 

 mission was not to rake up past misdeeds, but to request His 

 Majesty to enter into another bond of peace, friendship, and 

 alliance, and to this end he would, in the name of his 

 superiors, lend all his powers to give His Imperial Majesty 

 every possible and reasonable satisfaction. 



As to His Majesty's objection to the two points in articles 

 3rd and 5th, it was generally known that the Company went 

 to great expense in expelling the Portuguese from His Impe- 

 rial Majesty's dominions, and were still spending yearly in 

 the maintenance of garrisons required for the protection of 

 His Majesty's towns and forts against invasion and attack 

 from foreign enemies. 



To prove that the allegation that His Majesty was not 

 indebted to them was untrue, [the Ambassador replied] upon 

 the first point, that he had already shown that His Imperial 

 Majesty was the first to violate the treaty, and not the 

 Company. 



Upon the second point, [he said] that the spoil of Gale, 

 with the exception of some cinnamon and arecanuts already 

 placed to His Imperial Majesty's credit, and some cannon 

 and ammunition left for the protection of the fortress, had 

 been equally divided between the Modliaars of His Imperial 



