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Whatever thing my Hollanders present me with I esteem it 

 much ; and the present that Your Honour sent to this imperial 

 court 10 I welcomed much more, and for certain I hold in my 

 royal heart that in all things that shall offer of my royal service 

 the Dutch nation will never fail me in anything. 



Your Honour says also in the last paragraph of your letter 

 that the Portuguese had obtained from Portugal two other 

 ships. This news I had already heard, but I did not hold it 

 for certain ; because I only rely upon that which comes to my 

 royal notice by way of the Hollanders, who are like my own 

 vassals who serve me with loyalty, and I did [? do] not give 

 credit to that which comes to me by way of another nation 

 except when it reaches me by four or five ways. Your 

 Honour treats also in the same paragraph of the treachery 

 that the Portuguese practised in Brazil 11 . To the treacherous 

 who have an evil heart and speak good words with the mouth 

 there is cause for punishment to be given ; and whoever shall 

 take this cause upon himself, God likewise will have much 

 cause to aid him. 



The second letter that Your Honour wrote to me from that 

 fortress of mine on the 6th of February in the year 1652 12 was 

 presented to me in the same royal kingdom of mine of Bintena. 

 In the first paragraph of it Your Honour tells me that you 

 were much surprised at my writing to the commissary Pedro 

 Kuieft 13 , as if he were there in person. If I wrote to him, it 

 was because after the letter of Your Honour arrived until 

 writing to the said commissary I had not read it, by reason of 

 my having gone on recreation, in order to pass the time, and 

 having determined to reply to it after I had come to my city 

 of Badula, as you might see from the first paragraph of the 

 letter that I wrote to the said commissary. I was very glad 

 when I heard what your Honour treats of in the second 

 paragraph of your letter 14 . 



While writing this paragraph on a Monday, the 26th of 

 August, at eleven o'clock at night, there reached me a 

 pa tarn ar 15 with two other persons from Goa, who brought me a 

 letter in great secrecy, written in the Malavar language, from 

 King Vigiapala 16 , done on the 15th of the moon of March of this 

 present year of [ 1]652. In it he told me that there had arrived 



