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



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Batavia destined for this place are delayed far beyond 

 expectation, and we cannot know whether (which God 

 avert) they may not have met with some disaster, or when 

 they may arrive here, 



so that it will be desirable to husband our resources and 



prevent extremities as much as in us lies : 



It has been unanimously resolved and approved ; 



the more so as we cannot expect supplies from any other 



place except Batavia, to discontinue one meat-ration day every 



week from this date, until such time as matters shall begin 



to take a more favourable aspect ; 



in which case we shall be able to hold out until the 

 time specified above. But that on the other hand, on each 

 ration-day, being Sunday and Thursday, each man shall 

 have issued to him half a quartern of arrack over and above 

 the accustomed quantity of the same. 



It has been furthermore resolved to set free the prisoner 

 Padre Frey Joao de Capeierao, recently exchanged by our 

 Captain at Alycan (instead of the traitor St. Amand), 

 together with those captured by the yacht " Limmen " and 

 conveyed hither, and to let them go where they like, 



MS.fol. U. 



seeing they are poor men, and we cannot expect to obtain 

 any ransom from or for them ; considering also that 

 the aforesaid Padre was once before set at large by their 

 Worships the Governor-General and Council of India at 

 Batavia, sent hither two years since in the yacht " Lecq," 

 and put ashore at Cotschin 1 by the officers of the ship 

 " Neptunus " ; finally, that these people are not only an 

 encumbrance to us here, but also brew a great deal of evil 

 among our soldiers of this garrison, however narrowly 

 watched. 



Pieter Jansz Kuyper of Hoorn, arrived in India on the 13th 

 January, 1640, in the ship " Nasjan," as a third mate on a pay 



Cochin. 



