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for reasons and considerations sufficiently set forth at length 

 in our previous resolutions, 



It has been resolved, approved of, and concluded, 

 to dispatch against the said enemy, to-morrow at daybreak, 

 a strong party of 180 able-bodied men, besides the officers, 

 under the command of the provisional Captain Jan van der 

 Laen, and the Lieutenants Lambert Camholt and Burchardt 

 Gocqx, together with all the Cingalese lascorins now present 

 in this town ; 



but, in case they should see no convenient way of crossing 

 the aforesaid morass without peril, they are to return hither 

 without any further attempt, 



MS.fol. 3. 



seeing that in that case they are not likely to obtain any 

 advantage. A ctum in the town of Galle, datum ut supra. Jan 

 Thysen, Gerrit Moutmaker, Pieter Lemoyne, Jan van der 

 Laen, Lambert Camholt, Gerrit Gerritsz, Burchardt Cocqx, 

 Albert Claesz Hooghland, Secretary. 



Saturday, October 11 , 1642. 



MS.fol. 4. 



Whereas this day in the forenoon we got sight of a 

 sail, being, as far as we were able to reconnoitre, a flush 

 vessel or frigate of the enemy's, making (as it seemed) for 

 Columbo, since she did her utmost to take her course 

 thither, 



but seeing that contrary winds and counter-currents would 

 not allow of this, the said vessel turned round before the 

 wind, presumably to call at some of the enemy's places 

 lower down ; 



Therefore the Lord President has summoned his Council 

 and laid before them the question whether it would not be 

 advisable to send out directly from this bay the yacht 

 " Limmen " in pursuit of the said vessel, on the chance of the 

 aaid vessel falling into the power of the said yacht, which 



