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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [YOL. XYII. 



The Lord President and the full Council of all the ships 

 and yachts present having duly weighed the said promise, 

 and having considered that it would not make much differ- 

 ence if we should remain here for a few days longer, seeing 

 that the south-west good monsoon will not begin to blow its 

 very strongest before the end of this month, enabling us to 

 run down to Battecaloa and Coromandel. 



As also that the Lord Governor-General and Council of 

 India have, by their aforesaid letters, urgently recommended 

 us the providing of cinnamon. 



Finally, which is chiefly to be considered, that if we 

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decline the king's proposal, and should cause the fleet to put 

 off from this coast, the enemy would doubtless prevent him 

 from peeling the said cinnamon, and we should consequently 

 be deprived thereof, 



It has been unanimously resolved and approved of 

 To let all the ships and yachts (excepting " S'Hartogen- 

 bosch," " Lis," and "De Zeeusche Nagtegaal") remain in these 

 waters up to the 20th of this month under command of the 

 Honourable Commander Dominicus Bouwens, and after 

 expiration of this term to run down all together to Galle in 

 order to continue their course to Coromandel as aforesaid ; 



The said ship " S'Hartogenbosch " and the yacht " Lis " to 

 set sail for Galle this very evening, and the yacht " De 

 Zeeusche Nagtegaal " likewise to follow two or three days 

 hence (when the Commander Bouwens, having requested 

 this, shall have got ready his advices to be sent to their 

 Worships at Batavia), in order to be despatched afterwards 

 by the Lord President Jan Thysen and the Commander 

 Cornelis Blaeuw, to wit, the yacht " Lis " to Paliacatte to the 

 Lord Governor Arent Gardenys, and the " De Zeeusche Nagte- 

 gaal" to Batavia to their Worships with letters from ourselves 

 and from the Commander Blaeuw touching the state of affairs 

 here and the events that have lately taken place here, 



