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of it, Captain Paulus Doncq and Lieutenant Lambert Camholt 

 with a party of forty soldiers, shall march to the said passage 

 or path, in order to examine the situation and condition of 

 the same, and on their return give a thorough report 

 concerning them. 



Whereas the redcaps find few buyers among theCingalese, 

 and will not fetch the prices fixed by the Lord President 

 and Council, it has been resolved that henceforth the 

 ordinary ones may be sold for 5 laryns 1 and upwards, 



MS.fol. 49. 



and the superior ones for 8 laryns each, but not below these 

 prices, 



Hans Andriesz of Comwel, arrived in India in 1640 in 

 the ship "Amboina" as a sailor, on a pay of 8 guilders 

 per month, whose engaged time is about to expire, is at his 

 request by these presents admitted to a new four years' engage- 

 ment in the Honourable Company's service, and, in the 

 capacity of Adelborst, allowed a pay of 11 guilders monthly, 

 the increase of pay being held to have begun on the 14th of 

 this month, and the new term to begin after expiry of the 

 old one. 



Tomas Dircksz of Westeryse, arrived in India as above, on 

 9 guilders monthly, is by these presents engaged on a pay of 

 12 guilders per month, the new engagement and increase of 

 pay beginning ut supra. 



Cornells Oloffsz of Cristiania, arrived in India in 1638 in 

 the ship " Swol " as a soldier, on 9 guilders monthly, is by 

 these presents engaged on a pay of 12 guilders per month, 

 engagement and pay beginning ut supra. 



1 The larin was a peculiar kind of money formerly in use in the Persian 

 Gulf, on the West Coast of India and in the Maldive Islands. " In value 

 every five lari are equal to a piastre or patacca of reals of Spain, or ' a piece 

 of eight ' as we choose to call it." — P. delta mile, II., 434, quoted in Hobson- 

 Jobson. I had not. read this extract when passing- the earlier portions of 

 this Paper for the press. The approximate, if not the real, value of the 

 " piece of eight " frequently referred to in these pages may now be learnt. 



