NO. 53.— 1902.] GALLB DUTCH RECORDS. 



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Bergen op den Soom " and " Armuyden " [ 



and since no [ 



this very evening ; the more so as on the roads of Columbo 

 sometimes might be with advantage undertaken (which God 

 may grant) against the enemy's ships, four in number, which 

 three days ago were still lying there ; 



With this understanding, however, that the yacht " Lecq " 

 shall not remain there, but, as soon as the Lord President — 

 whom we hereby at his request empower to the said mission 

 —shall have to his own satisfaction observed the said 

 fortress and its situation and present position, shall sail 

 hither ward again in order to be used as aviso 1 between here 

 and Galle, and to fetch anything that should be wanted for 

 the ships. 



It has furthermore been resolved to allow two of the three 

 Ceylonese 2 ambassadors now on board the ship " Armuyden " 

 to accompany the Lord President on board the said yachts 

 " Liefde," &c, the said ambassadors having made a request 

 tending thereto, and professing that they were confident 

 that in the neighbourhood of Negumbo there must be 

 encamped some of the king's men whom they 



MS. page 40. 



would give orders to set out for Candy, in order to acquaint 

 the Emperor with our appearance here, and further to 

 admonish him to come down to the fortresses with his forces, 

 and also to try to get some fresh victuals, and other reasons 

 of the like nature ; 



This permission being granted by us in order to allow 

 those people the utmost they can lay claim to, and to prevent 

 them from alleging anything done on our part that they 

 might justly complain of. 



Actum in the ship " Bergen op den Soom," lying off the Bar 

 of Columbo, datum ut supra. Jan Thy sen, Dominicus 



1 Portuguese — warning", or advice. 



2 Sinhalese. 



