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JOURNAL, R.A.S* (CEYLON). [YOL. XVIL 



item that in this town we are not sufficiently provided with 

 ready money to pay a reasonable daily wage to the soldiers 

 or other volunteers who might offer to perform this work ; 



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lastly, that we trust that the Lord Governor-General and 

 Council of India will not take this in ill part, and will not 

 attach much importance to the detention of so small a number 

 of slaves, who, as aforesaid, are urgently needed here. 



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

 Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan van der Laen, Pieter Lemoyne^ 

 Lambert Camholt, Albert Hooghland, Secretary. 



Wednesday, April 22,. 1643. 



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It having been considered in Council that below or about 

 Talpe, situated within a Dutch mile east of Galle, the Portu- 

 guese having formerly discovered a shorter passage or path 

 there, used the same to march the more speedily and safely 

 towards the place they wanted to reach, 

 regard being had to the present favourable opportunity, 

 during the continuance of the truce with the Portuguese, 

 which we ought by all means to avail ourselves of, in order 

 to explore not only the passage or path aforesaid, but also all 

 the roads and paths round about Galle, and leading into the 

 interior, and to obtain a clear idea of the same ; to the 

 intent that— whether the peace should hold or war break out 

 again — we may be well informed about all of them, which 

 we stand in urgent need of ; 



Therefore it has been resolved and unanimously approved, 

 the more so as the Lord Commissioner Pieter Boreel has 

 given express orders thereto in the instructions 1 handed to 

 the Lord President, that, as soon as the weather shall allow 



1 These " instructions " unfortunately have not been preserved among* the 

 archives- 



