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court who might assist in them ; but from this fraud I shall clear 
myself with the Portuguese during this year, which we have for doing 
it, as Your Honour points out in yours to me, and if they do not wish to 
come to an agreement I must make war on them, and not on that 
account must the friendship cease which I have with the Dutch 
nation as long as the sun and moon shall endure. In the articles of 
agreement respecting the partition of territories which Your Honours 
made with the Portuguese they make mention of Your Honours therein 
and not of me (whose are the said territories, and as the Grovernor- 
General of Jacatara wrote to me and Your Honour also in yours). I 
know that that did not originate on the part of Your Honours, but in 
the malice of the Portuguese from the fierce hatred which they bear 
towards me. And as these articles will be seen and published among 
many nations of the world, it is right that in the places in which Your 
Honours are named with respect to the partition of territories they 
should mention me, and remove [the names of] Your Honours, since 
the Governor-Greneral of Jacatara wrote me in his that Your Honour 
would do nothing except what I wished and what should be to my 
liking. Your Honour moreover said in yours that in the Seven Corlas 
you had left a camp of 500 soldiers, and had the intention of leaving 
another in the parts about Mature for the quieting of the territories. 
Your Honours being at peace with the Portuguese, and the same being 
the case between me and the Dutch nation, we do not fear any other 
nation that might disturb it ; therefore let Your Honour order the said 
garrison to retire to my fortress of Nigumbo, seeing that its exit there- 
from has been to no purpose, except to incur expense without profit ; 
leaving that said fortress as well as that of G-ale very well provided 
with men. If up to the present I was of opinion that the fortress 
of Nigumbo should not have a garrison, it was on the understanding 
that we had taken Colombo ; but since Your Honours have made 
a truce with the Portuguese, it is well that there be there the said 
garrison, and from this time henceforth I shall sustain it with 
every necessary even as I sustain that at Gale and sustained that 
at Batecalou. If I have not hitherto contributed by the payment of 
the expenses which the Company has incurred in my service, it was 
because of the territories being in a state of disturbance up till now, 
as Your Honours know very well ; but as now by the favour of God they 
are quiet, I am going to pay them very punctually according to the 
terms of our contract. It was not possible this year to obtain 
cinnamon in the dissava of Seven Corlas, even if in the little monsoon 
I had given orders and had distributed money throughout the 
territories for the purpose of obtaining the said cinnamon, but on 
account of the disturbances this did not take place. In the lands 
about Mature some was obtained, and as to that I wrote to the 
Governor Joao Matheus^^^ that if there were any movement of the 
Portuguese he should store it in my fortress of Gale, and if not it 
would remain in the bankshalls'^^ in which it was. T do not know if they 
