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entering in the books, and I, being shamed at this, have not ordered 
my officers to deliver the cinnamon, because I did not know the 
quantity thereof, but nevertheless it is proper that the goods that 
have been collected be delivered to Your Honour. In case the 
elephants that I have sent to Batticaloa are not embarked on board- 
ship and the ships cannot wait, will Your Honour order that the 
ships that come from Goa take in the cinnamon in this port of Gale> 
and on their way to Batavia call at Batticaloa to learn if the ship 
has taken my letter to the Governor-General of Jacatra, with the 
elephants, or not, and, if they have not been dispatched, that they 
embark in that monsoon with the said letter? And I am also 
ordering the factor who is at Batticaloa, that he keep that letter 
with him until a ship come from Goa to take it away. 
Beside the lands that I conceded to the commandeur Pieter Boreel,^^^ 
as soon as he has left for Goa to treat with the Portuguese regarding 
ti^eves,^^^ they turn on a fresh tack, in order for me to give more, [saying] 
that they had made peace with me and that they will spread abroad 
the same and in all haste make it public in all quarters : wherefore if 
any news of this comes to your knowledge let Your Honour give no 
credit thereto. With this I send an order to my disava of Mature, 
that he send to the people that are in that fort of mine all the provision 
he can, from the lands that are subject to me without disturbance from 
the enemy, and I also order him to prepare all the cinnamon he can. 
In case the Portuguese came to these lands of Mature in order to 
prevent any goods being collected and any provisions being given to 
that fort of mine, and Your Honour saw that you could do them 
some injury and destroy them (that it may not happen as it did in 
Averaca),^^^ first take good deliberation and my disava in your 
company, and if with God's favour we gain the victory and destroy 
the enemy, let my disava remain to restore the lands and do my service, 
and let Your Honour retire once more inside the fort ; and if you see 
that you cannot get rid of most of the enemy, you shall only take 
care to guard that fort of mine until we shall take Colombo, which 
with God's favour shall be in the coming year,^^^ &c. At present 
nothing further suggests itself. God preserve Your Honour, &c. 
Given in this court and city of Candia, April 4, 1644.-. 
(Signed) Eadia Singa. 
On November 10, 1644, a truce was agreed to at Goa 
between the Viceroy and Mr. Joan Maatzuyker, who had 
been sent thither by the Council at Batavia for that purpose.^^^ 
By one of the articles of this treaty Raja Si^ha was made 
a party to it, though without his consent ; and on January 
10, 1645, the divisions of the limits of the territories in the 
Island of Ceylon over which each nation was to exercise 
