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orders not to return without Pyl, and the Chief Adigar 

 besought him to come as soon as possible to Colombo, as 

 matters had reached an alarming crisis. 



Hendrick van Reecle died on the 16th December, 1691, 

 close to Bombay, on board the ship " Drechterland," on a 

 voyage from Ceylon to Surat, and his embalmed body was 

 buried close to Surat, in January, 1692. He was married to 

 Johanna Schade, daughter of Johan Schade by his second 

 wife, Elizabeth de Leeuw. His child by this marriage was 

 Francina, who married (1) Captain Maurice Caesar de la Baye 

 (who died in Colombo, 14th February, 1693), and (2) 1694, 

 Anthony Carel van Panhuys, who died January, 1714,* 



Plate 123, Galle. 



DE ERBARE EN DEUGDERYKE 

 JUFFROYW ELISABETH DE HEES 

 YAN VLISSINGEN HUYSYROYW 

 YAN DEN FISCAAL DANIEL 

 TISTE. MOEDER YAN EEN 

 KIND IS IN HAAR 42STE JAAR 

 OP DEN 5en OCTOBER A° 1709 

 ZALIGH OYERLEDEN LEGHT 

 HIER BEGRAYEN EN YERWAGT 



D : OPSTANDINGE 

 POSUIT SUPERSTES MARITUS. 



Translation.— The honourable and virtuous Elizabeth de 

 Hees, of Ylissingen, the wife of the Fiscaal, Daniel Tiste, 

 mother of a child, is, in her 42nd year, on the 5th October, 

 1709, laid to her rest in the Lord. She lies here buried, and 

 awaits the resurrection. 



Her surviving husband has erected this tombstone. 



Remarks.— See 1 M.L.R. SI. 



* See Kok's " Vaderlandsche Woordenboek," and 1 C.L.R. 112. 



