JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XVI. 



APPENDIX B, 



Instructions to Monsieur Pierre Du Flo, Major, and Commander of a 

 Military Force intended to operate in the Seven Korales, and 

 elsewhere, according to circumstances.* 



1. The object of this expedition being under Divine blessing to 

 secure for us, by a show of force, a firm and creditable peace with the 

 Kandyans, it has been deemed advisable that you should proceed via 

 Kurunegala into Bintenna ; thence to penetrate into the Province of 

 XJva, of which Badulla is the capital, where in recent years the King 

 of Kandy has resided ; and from there to retreat to Batticaloa. 



2. Towards this end, you have been supplied with general reports 

 drawn up from particulars furnished by persons who have lived in 

 those Provinces, or have passed through them. The names of the 

 villages or hamlets, which you will meet with en route, have been 

 carefully noted down — their respective distances, the nature of the 

 route, the means of subsistence available — in short, all that is likely 

 to throw light on your line of march, and the measures necessary to 

 be taken. The informants themselves will accompany you, as guides. 



3. Monsieur Frijtag, Commandant at Trincomalee, will make a 

 diversion from that side with a small detachment, and will advance 

 towards the Province of Matale at the beginning of February — exactly 

 the date that you may yourself expect to reach the interior of the 

 Matale District. This excursion from the direction of Trincomalee is 

 devised with the object of distracting the attention of the enemy from 

 Badulla, and inducing the supposition that you intend to retreat on 

 Trincomalee. Monsieur Frijtag 's force will return to its station about 

 February 25th ; and at the commencement of March similar tactics 

 will be adopted from the Batticaloa side, with a small detachment 

 which will endeavour to unite with you, and will at any rate serve 

 to hold the enemy in check, and make it doubtful which route you 

 will follow. This plan will be greatly helped by the fact that the 

 Kandyans (from certain information which I have obtained regarding 

 the route from Badulla to the Walawe) are persuaded that we shall 

 make an attempt from the direction of Kataragama ; and I have been 

 at pains to spread the truth of that report. 



4. From Batticaloa you will march by the shortest route to 

 Trincomalee. There you will arrange with Monsieur Frijtag to return 

 by the same road that the lascaryns take when carrying despatches to 

 Colombo. But if your f orce'is not exhausted you should make a detour 

 through the District of the Wanniya of Nuwarakalaviya, in order to 

 punish him ; and thereafter retreat on Aripu, Puttalam, or any other 

 place from which you can notify us here of your return. 



* Translated from instructions in French copied from the Dutch Records, 

 Colombo. — B., Hon. Sec. 



