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whereas we have not been informed that the enemy would 

 intend to make any attempt against this place by water ; 

 whereas furthermore the Lord Governor Arent Gardenys 

 in his latest letter to us does not positively state that 

 the required 200 lasts of rice will reach us from there in the 

 months of January or February next ; 



the more so as the Lord Governor-General and Council of 

 India had ordered 600 lasts of the same sort, and (as we 

 have been told by the commanders of a small English 

 vessel which passed this bay on the 18th of this month) 

 up to the 20th December last no ships had appeared at 

 Coromandel from any quarter excepting only a yacht from 

 Bengal, of which we cannot know to which place it will be 

 sent on, 



So that it might easily come to pass 

 MS.fol. 18. 



that the said Lord Governor Gardenys had no shiproom to 

 forward the said rice to us ; 



Therefore at the suggestion of the Lord President it has 

 been unanimously resolved and approved 

 to send out as soon as possible two of the yachts now lying 

 in this bay, namely " Limmen " and " Rommerswael," to the 

 roads of Goa to the Commander Jan Dircksz Gale (?), in order 

 to fetch thence certain necessaries for this garrison. 



Erasmus Haluers of Christiania, arrived in India in the 

 ship " Sutphen " in 1640 as a boatswain, on a pay of 9 guilders 

 per month, having since the 4th of this month done the 

 duties of a boatswain's mate in the yacht " Limmen " to the 

 full satisfaction of his superiors, is, on this account and 

 considering his ability, by these presents confirmed in the said 

 capacity, and according to the general articles of engage- 

 ment laid down by our masters, allowed a pay of 16 

 guilders per month, the increase being held to date from the 

 day when he began to perform the duties of the aforesaid 

 office. 



