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as they were ; and that the violence committed at Gallepitty 

 Mandeme and Awisawelle was the fault of the Company's 

 people, who were in the habit of clandestinely purchasing 

 precious stones, and committing other misdemeanours. 



As some people of the Happitigam Corle had in the same 

 year received permission to erect a church and school in the 

 village of Moergampelle, the Dessawe of the Three and Four 

 Corles sent four Candians to the Koraal of that Province, 

 and to the Kangaan, for the express purpose of stopping 

 the building, saying that during the Company's occupation 

 of that place there had never been a church there, and that 

 no church should be built now. 



However unreasonable these interferences were, it was 

 considered advisable, for various reasons, to show that we did 

 not feel offended, and to suspend the works for the present. 



In January of the year 1742 Governor Willem Maurits 

 Bruyninck left for Batavia, and was succeeded by Governor 

 Daniel Overbeek, Extraordinary Councillor of Netherlands- 

 India. 



During that year the Court was very friendly, and nothing 

 of any consequence occurred. But Governor Overbeek received 

 an impertinent letter from the Dessawe of the Three and Four 

 Corles requesting that two documents — the one to the courtiers 

 at Arrakan and the other to Siam — should be sent to those 

 places by the Company's own servants, and the answers 

 received be communicated to him. 



In order to please the Court this demand was so far 

 complied with that the Dessawe was informed of the Company's 

 inclination to forward the documents as far as Nagapattnam, 

 but that they could not send them to their final destination by 

 the Company's servants. 



On May 11, 1743, Mr. Julius Valentijn Stein van Gollonesse, 

 Extraordinary Councillor of Netherlands-India, arrived at 

 Colombo, and took over the government from Mr. Daniel 

 Overbeek, who left for Batavia. 



In July of the same year the Candians had the presump- 

 tion to again alter the frontier lines of the Hina Corle, and 



