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monthly, is, by these presents, considering his ability and the 

 diligence shown by him, allowed a pay of 20 guilders 

 monthly as an under barber, the increase of pay to begin this 

 day. 



Jacques Tierry of Orleans, arrived in India in 1642 in the 

 ship " Banda " as an Adelborst, is, by these presents, consider- 

 ing his ability and the diligence shown by him, allowed a pay 

 of 18 guilders monthly as an under barber, the increase of 

 pay to begin this day. 



Thus done and resolved in the town of Galle, datum ut 

 supra. Jan Thy sen, Marten Vinck, Paulus Doncq, Gerrit 

 Moutmaker, Gerrit Maeyer, Albert Hooghland, Secretary. 



Friday, November 21, 1643, 



MS.foL 103. 



Whereas this day there has arrived here a king's 

 champan, having on board a new dessave, 1 to take the place 

 of the one now residing in this town, and to exercise his 

 functions, and as the said dessave has informed us by word 

 of mouth, among other things, that as they were on the way 

 off Teneware, 11 miles from here, they were attacked by 

 two hostile mantchoes, one of them carrying fifteen and the 

 other twelve white men ; which mantchoes began to fire at 

 them off Cogele, at 3 miles' distance from this town ; they 

 answering the fire until they came before this bay, when 

 the enemy ceased to fire and left them late in the evening — 

 the firing having been partly seen and heard in this town— 

 and they having lost of the king's men three killed and a few 

 wounded, without knowing how many of the enemy's men 

 have been killed or wounded ; 



1 Dissave was the title of a G-overnor of a province under the Kandyan 

 Kings. " Next under the Adigars are the Dissouvas, who are the Governors 

 over provinces and countries of the land." — Knox, page 50. The Dutch 

 adopted the title from the Sinhalese, and applied it to some high officials 

 of their own race whom they placed as Agents of the Government in 

 certain parts of the Island. 



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