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engagement as an Adelborst on a monthly pay of 14 guilders, 

 the increase of pay to begin this day, and the new engage- 

 ment on expiry of the old one. 



Thus done and resolved in the town of Galle, datum 

 ut supra. Jan Thysen, Marten Vinck, Gerrit Moutmaker, 

 Lambert Camholt, Gerrit Maeyer, Albert Hooghland, 

 Secretary. 



Monday, the last day of August, 1643. 



MS.fol. 89. 



Whereas yesterday to our great joy there appeared quite 

 unexpectedly in this bay from Batavia (for which God be 

 thanked !) the yacht " Santvoort " and the fluytschip " Heem- 

 stede," and the Lord Governor-General and Council of India 

 have by the same sent us orders to have the said ships unloaded 

 directly on arrival, to keep the yacht " Santvoort" here, and to 

 send the fluytschip "Heemstede " to Paliacotte, to be used on 

 the Coast of Coromandel, and to require the Lord Governor 

 Arent Gardenys to give us so much rice, gunpowder, cloth, 

 etc., as we should stand in 'need of, to be brought us in 

 the said fluyt or in some other vessel. Therefore the 

 Council assembled, having reconsidered the resolution of 

 the 20th of this month, 



have unanimously resolved and approved- 

 Seeing that, regard being had to the head winds and contrary 

 currents, we cannot employ the yachts against the enemy 

 before Columbo, Negumbo, Cape Comorin, and other places 

 thereabouts, before the month of October ; 

 seeing that this bay can be sufficiently protected against 

 any hostile attempts with the yacht " Santvoort" alone (nay, 

 that we might manage without it) ; 



Furthermore seeing that if we send out the yacht "Delf- 

 shaven " along with the fluyt " Heemstede," they run no 

 risk of falling into the power of the enemy's frigates that 

 might be cruising on this coast or on the Coast of Coromandel 

 (as almost happened to the yacht " De Star " last year) ; 



