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Honourable Company would be to them a solace and 

 pleasure, for the maintenance of their wives and children 

 by its good government; not that I heard such complaints 

 only on the way, but also in Candia, when in the Imperial 

 Court. 



Leaving in the morning for Buanelle, [we] saw on the way 

 two or three of our men who were prisoners, but, as before 

 said, naked and bare almost like wild men. In the evening we 

 came to Buanelle, where, having remained the night, we left 

 for Citawaacke, which we reached about evening. The chief 

 of the place, Bemmewatte Tinneconnerale, sent his under- 

 officers to me to ask whether I would spend the night there, 

 and, however I was disposed, it would please him if I did so, 

 as I had come away on the Emperor's order. He had, 

 according to his confession, no authority to receive me, and I 

 answered and said if the gentlemen (Monsieurs) so desired, I 

 was, and am, ready for the service of the Honourable Com- 

 pany. Whereupon his officers asked, on the order of the said 

 Bemmewatte, whether we were not tired, and whether my 

 feet were not sore : but I replied again that I was ready and felt 

 no pain and fatigue, notwithstanding the heavy rain, Mean- 

 while the evening drew near, so Sr. Tinneconnerale asked 

 me to spend the night there (which I did) ; and I could 

 in the morning depart comfortably to Orwevel : so the afore- 

 said Bemmewatta recommended and asked me to do, as 

 there would be fewer leeches. 



Whereupon I left in the morning with an escort of the 

 following officers : Attanakorale, two Arachies of Oedepalate 

 with their lascoreens, who had escorted me from above to 

 the last gravet of Hijtewacke. There came also Sr. Tinne- 

 connerale with all his lascoreens, as an escort to the Honour- 

 able Company and myself as far as the last gravet. Here the 

 aforesaid people took their leave, and returned to the hills, and 

 Sr. Tenneconnerale enjoined his officers and lascoreens that 

 they should lead me to Orwevel. Thereupon I again sought 

 to take my leave first from the Emperor, afterwards from 

 the aforesaid chief, which was done. Leaving that place I 



