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force, in order to reconnoitre the field as far as the river 

 Gindure, and to ascertain whether the enemy was keeping in 

 those parts ; that afterwards with the more safety smaller 

 parties might be sent out. And after mature consideration,, 

 and having weighed the matter and agreed that we could not 

 answer it if any disaster should befall so weak a party, and 

 that, nevertheless, on this occasion it were meet to let our 

 men enjoy so much refreshment as were anyway obtainable, 

 they have resolved and determined that to-morrow morning 

 a body of 80 men (besides the officers) under command 

 of Captain Wa [Iraven de Rivire, Lieuten] ant Jacob Gans 

 and [ ] Ensign Adam Helwinck, assisted by two 



sergeants, shall sally forth to reconnoitre the [ ] 

 on the river Gindure, and to secure the place where people 

 cross the river near Bacquelle, 1 without however passing on to 

 the other side, lest in crossing or re-crossing being discovered 

 by bodies of the enemy, they should be separated and the 

 weakest part be attacked by the same. 



Actum in the town of Galle, datum ut supra. Jan Thysen ? 

 Marten Vinck, Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan van der Laen, Lambert 

 Camholt, 



Saturday ,. August 24, 1642. 



MS. page 2. 



Whereas Pieter Brantsteen of Ysendyck, soldier ; Dirck 

 Hop of Garmuyln, also a soldier ; and Teunis Helmert of 

 Deventer, corporal (as on the 9th instant they had been 

 commanded to sally forth, together with a body of soldiers, 

 to perform that which has been referred to in the previous 

 resolution), had bequeathed and devised to the persons 

 following, to wit, Pieter Brantsteen to Cornells Martensz. 

 van der Gouw, soldier ; Dirck Hop to Gems Pryts, also a 

 soldier ; and Teunis Helmert to Jeuriaen Lange, sergeant 

 (in case they should be left behind), their whole accoutre- 

 ments, and besides, Dirck Hop also his monthly pay, as the 

 said legatees duly and clearly proved by attestation to the 



5 Probably the spot where the present resthouse stands. 



