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that, as the said Cingalese chiefs are obliging enough to 

 make this offer of their own accord, it would be churlish 

 not to comply with their request ; 



that furthermore, the enemy were known to keep about that 

 part of the country with no more than five or six Europeans 

 and a body of natives ; 



That even if they numbered five or six distancies, at the 

 utmost, our party, with the help of God, would not need to 

 run any risk ; 



It has been resolved to send out this afternoon a party of 

 120 men under the command of Captain Jan van der Laen 

 and the Lieutenant Lambert Camholt, together with two 

 sergeants — which force is deemed sufficiently strong for the 

 purpose — in conjunction with the aforesaid Cingalese, with 

 orders not to stay away beyond to-morrow, unless in case of 

 urgent necessity, and then to return to this place. 



Thus done and resolved 



MS. page 97. 



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

 Moutmaker, Pieter Lemoyne, Jan van der Laen, Lambert 

 Camholt, Albert Claesz Hooghland, Secretary. 



[Sentences Pronounced by the Council of the 

 Town of Galle.] 



MS. page 98. 



Whereas Hendricq Claesz van der Heyden, formerly a 

 sergeant, at present their Worships' prisoner, did on the 

 24th of last month so far forget and misdemean himself 

 that, forgetting allbounden duties which ought, considering 

 his office, to have prompted him to the contrary, he got 

 drunk and intoxicated in the guard-house, where he was 

 appointed chief officer ; and about 8 o'clock in the evening, 

 without any reason, left the same, and did not return 



