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On the 3rd of February the same arrived in Ceilon, and 

 stayed there until June, when they sailed for Goa, where 

 they remained until 1658. 



Anno 1658. 



* # # «= * 



On the 3rd of March three ships with soldiers came from 

 Batavia to us off Goa, and brought six hundred soldiers and 

 four mortars, two of which shot 220 lb., the other two 60 lb. 

 The Commissary who came with them, of the name of Richlof 

 von Guntz,* from Emden, took other four ships and many 

 soldiers, so that upon every ship before Goa there remained 

 only fifteen men, and sailed towards Columbo. We arrived 

 on the 5th of April, but were not allowed to land. The 

 above-named Commissary went on shore and ordered the old 

 soldiers to embark as well ; he also took a large quantity of 

 ammunition. 



On the 12thf a fleet of nine ships with one thousand five 

 hundred soldiers, and in every ship besides one hundred and 

 twenty to one hundred and thirty sailors, sailed towards the 

 island of Manara, about twenty miles from Columbo.\ It 

 belonged to the Portuguese at that time, who had built a 

 fortress thereon. On the 11th of April we arrived at the 

 river four miles from the fortress, and when they heard of 

 it, they came from there as well as from the castle Jaffana- 

 patan, which is situated behind Manara y and tried to 

 prevent our landing. 



On the 13th of April our fleet went as near the shore as 

 possible, the battle ships as well as the small ones ; they 

 formed a half moon ; they let go the anchors, so that the 

 ships remained in one position, and could carry all the guns 

 charged with grapeshot on one side directed towards the land. 



* Rijklof von G-oens. (Dutch ed., Richlof von Gunts.) 



f The Dutch ed. has 10th, a needful correction, since the next date 

 mentioned is the 11th. The dates, however, are not reliable (cf. Baldseus). 



X Compare with Saar's account of the capture of Mannar and siege and 

 -capitulation of Jaffna those given by Baldaeus and Ribeiro (the latter in 

 Ceylon Literary Register, vol. V., p. 202). 



