NO. 53. — 1902.] GALLE DUTCH RECORDS. 



331 



For which reason also the three distancies 1 of Europeans 

 — who some time ago had been sent to Vacquelle with 

 orders to cut off all the neli paddy and rice in the fields there, 

 and to make head against us if we should try to prevent the 

 same — had directly gone to another place, in order to 

 deceive us if we should intend to attack them, and the next 

 day had gone on, away from the high road, pretty far into the 

 interior towards Mature by way of Mapelegame, in order to 

 join the main body departed from Biligam, 2 and also arrived 

 there ; 



And as the said Cingalese chiefs further declared that in 

 a certain place named Kimby, 3 about [ ] miles from here, 

 where there were no enemies, some full-grown rice standing 

 in the fields, together with a number of tame cows, might 

 now be obtained ; 



Requesting that leave might be given to a party of our 

 soldiers to go there in company with their own men in order 

 to cut and carry off the said rice which they said to be 

 greatly in want of, which we know to be true ; 



The Lord President having convened his Council, strength- 

 ened with the provisional Lieutenants Gerrit Maeyer and 

 Burchard Cocqx, 4 

 MS. page 91. 



has submitted to the judgment of the said Council the 

 question : 



What were best to be clone for the greatest profit of the 

 Honourable Company and in order to give as much satisfac- 

 tion as possible to the said Cingalese, as it is still necessary 

 to use dissimulation with them and to hold out a helping- 

 hand to them in every possible way ; 



All which having been duly weighed by the said Council, 

 and it having been considered, 



1 Companies. 2 Welligama. 3 Kimbiya, in the G-angaboda pattuwa. 



4 The gravestone of this officer was recently discovered at G-alle on the 

 site of the old church demolished about 150 years ago (see C.B.R.A.S. 

 Journal, vol. XV.. p. 267). His " Acte " appears in the second part of this 

 Paper. 



