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shall have an equal number of men, and that each of the 

 companies from Galle shall keep its present number of men. 



Forasmuch as on examining the knapsacks of the soldiers 

 it has been found that in all 81 of them are missing, which 

 have been lost in the battle, it has been thought advisable 

 that all the sailmakers of the respective ships of this fleet 

 shall be ordered to make a few more than the said number of 

 knapsacks out of rough dotia dolqua (?), to the end that in 

 case of need the soldiers can be provided for four or five days. 



Thus done and resolved in the Dutch camp before the 

 conquered fortress of Negumbo, date as above. (Signed) 

 Francois Caron, Jan Thysen, Willem van der Beecq, Marten 

 Vinck, Reyndert Weybrantsz, Pieter Vinckboous, Johannes 

 Burgers. 



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Wednesday, January IS, 1644. 



MS.fol 139. 



Whereas from the conquest of the fortress of Negumbo 

 down to this present date, we have been engaged in burying 

 the enemy's dead and ours, in attending to the wounded, in 

 carrying the prisoners on board, in mustering the companies, 

 axjpointing other provisional officers in the room of the 

 killed and wounded, and are still employed in constructing 

 sheds for the soldiers of our army, in cleaning the said 

 fortress, in razing the broken walls, in carrying off heaps of 

 stones, repairing the burnt paggers 1 with new cocoanut 

 trees, mending the broken bridges, and constructing houses 

 for storing victuals and ammunition and for lodging the 

 soldiers and officers, the said houses having all been shattered 

 by the explosion of gunpowder : and since we were 

 yesterday as well as on previous days credibly informed 

 that on the 9th instant, being the day of the battle, Dom 

 Philipo Mascarenhas had set out from Columbo with 7 



1 Rough fences made of trunks of trees or shrubs. 



