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Palicatte, and returning thence call at Battecaloa again, in 

 order to take on board the said necessaries, not doubting [ 



] 



Jan Teunisz,of Palia [ ], having three years ago entered 

 the service of the Honourable East India Company as a cabin 

 boy on a salary of 4 guilders per month, having half that 

 time been employed as a junior assistant, is therefore, at 

 his request and on account of his ability, by these presents 

 confirmed in the said office, his salary under a renewed three 

 years' engagement being fixed at 10 guilders per month, the 

 increase of salary beginning under this day's date. 



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

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

 Camholt. 



October 30, 1641 A.D. 



MS. page 7. 



Having considered that the Portuguese prisoners sent over 

 to us by Their Honours at Batavia in the yacht "Water- 

 hond" and the fluytschip 1 "Capelle" (for the ransoming 

 of the Oppercoopman van der Oudermeulen and the Ensign 

 Westerenen, who, after the loss of Negumbo, remained there 

 as hostages, and are still kept in custody at Columbo, and of 

 other prisoners) are still present with us up to this date, and 

 we consider it very unlikely that the giving up of his 

 prisoners on the part of Dom Philip Ms. 3 Governor at Columbo 

 will speedily ensue, forasmuch as the said Dom Philip in his 

 letter to us makes slight mention thereof, and cannot resolve 

 to set them free (as we would have him do), but on the 

 contrary threatens to send them on to Goa, the Lord President 

 has therefore set these matters before his Council and 

 submitted to their consideration what follows. 2 



Whereas he has the yacht " Lecq " at his disposal, the 

 fluytschip " Capelle " from the Coast of Coromandel will 



1 A store ship. 3 Mascarenhas. 



2 The manuscript is much worm-eaten and undecipherable at this place. 



