No, 55 —1904.] RAJA. SINHA II. AND THE DUTCH. 185 
control were agreed to at Colombo. In this agreement also 
the Sinhalese monarch took no part, though he was apparently 
as a mere matter of form invited to assent to it.^^s That the 
Hollanders had little faith in the King's goodwill towards 
them is proved by the tone of the letters addressed to the 
Council at Batavia by Thyssen in 1 644, and by the fact of 
Dutch troops being stationed in the newly acquired districts 
about Negombo.126 Raja Sinha on his part was naturally 
annoyed at the cool manner in which the two European 
nations had partitioned territories which formed a portion 
of his dominions,^^^ and on February 16, 1645, he wrote the 
following letter^28 Maatzuyker : — 
[1.] 
The letters^'^^ which Your Honour^^^ sent me from my fortress of Ni- 
gombo were delivered to me at this court on the 11th of February. In 
the first place I was very glad to hear the letter of the Governor-General 
of Jacatara, and in the second I appreciated it in that it was told me 
therein that Your Honour was coming with a very powerful fleet to 
render me many services, and that you were a person of high position 
and of great intelligence and parts.^^^ In the partition of territories 
which Your Honours^^^ made with the Portuguese, in so far as touches 
the dissavas^^^ of Mature and Seven Corlas, they were very well divided, 
although in the division of the Seven Corlas there was some inequality, 
since Uracapatii and half of Mendapatu, which fell to the Portuguese, 
are districts of Catugambala Corla, which at the time of the publi- 
cation of the truces at Goa were on my side and subject to me. 
Putulao and Calpetj were never subject to Manar, and before the 
publication of the aforesaid truces I always had my vidanas in them 
and they were accustomed to obey me and were always under obedience 
to me and under my command. The Portuguese before they entered 
this Island of Ceilao came to Manar, and ever since then until this 
present time the aforesaid territories were never subject to Manar. 
As to the dissavas of Four Corlas and Sofraga5, they deceived Your 
Honour like knaves as they are, for in the 3rd chapter of the truces to 
which Your Honours agreed at Goa it is written that matters remain at 
the point at which they had arrived at the time of their publication in 
Goa ; and when they were published I was in possession of Andapan- 
duna, Guindigora Corla, Parnacuru Galbara Corla, all of which belong 
to the dissava of the Four Corlas, and in the lands of Bulatgama this 
side of the river of Gurugora in the dissava of Sofragao from the 
garaveto of Puapeti upwards,^^^ and there would never have been this 
fraud if when Your Honours made the said partitions in Colombo you 
had first advised me, so that I might send a person from this my 
