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43 There is a double error here ; the Dutch writer has misread 

 the figure 5 as 1 (which it closely resembles) and the words 

 " desetembro " as " desembro." 



44 This superscription is identical with that of the letter of 14 

 November 1658, printed at pp. 244-5 of my former paper, the 

 person addressed being the same, viz., Rijklof van Goens. 



46 I have found no reference to this letter in Valentyn or 

 elsewhere ; but it was probably in reply to the letter mentioned in 

 the previous note. 



46 Port, crioilos. 



^ The "capitulations" referred to are the articles of the treaty 

 of 23 May 1638, made with Westerwold, and confirmed 6 August 

 1649, art. 15 of which provided that any of the royal subjects that 

 had committed offences and had fled to the Dutch were to be given 

 up to the king for punishment. Raja Sinha wished to include in 

 this category the household slaves that had belonged to the Portu- 

 guese ere they were ousted from Ceylon ; but to this the Dutch 

 demurred. {Of. my former paper, p. 240.) 



48 This is a misapprehension : it was only Goa that the Dutch 

 were blockading. 



49 This also is incorrect : to Adriaan Roothaas was again com- 

 mitted the blockade of Goa ; while van Goens himself proceeded 

 to Coylan (Quilon), which he captured on 29 December 1658, and 

 thence to Cananor, where, however, he received an order from 

 Batavia to stay further hostilities, whereupon he returned to 

 Columbo in January 1659 (see Valentyn, Ceylon , 147 ; Bat, D.-R., 

 1659, pp. 43, 55). 



60 I cannot find that van Goens fulfilled this request ; and, as 

 mentioned at p. 245 of my former paper, in May 1659 the Dutch 

 under governor van der Meiden attacked and defeated the king's 

 forces in the peninsula of Kalpitiya, of which they thereupon 

 took possession. 



5. Mr. de Vos said there were published in Batavia certain 

 Dagregisters beginning from the year 1640, and the Society 

 possessed a series of them. He would like to know whether 

 those referring to the years 1652 to 1658 threw any light on these 

 letters, because so far as he could see from Mr. Ferguson's 

 notes there was no reference to them there. He would suggest 

 to the Council that it would be of the highest advantage to 

 Members who took an interest in subjects of that kind, that 

 copies of a Paper like the present should be previously sent to 

 them, so that they might study it and be in a position to offer 

 such remarks as might be desirable. 



6. Mr. Piehis said Mr. de Vos had put a question, which he 

 himself was most competent to answer. He had translated many of 

 those Registers, and they had been printed. Mr. Pieris proceeded 

 to offer certain criticisms of Mr. Ferguson's translation, giving 

 a sketch of the life of King Vijiyapala. 



