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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CBYLON). [VoL. XVIIT. 
whole Dutch nation is manifest and clear ; and beside my contributing 
as stated above it is agreed in the said treaties that the Hollanders 
should remain in one fortress in this my Island of Ceilao which 
I should indicate to them. And in the meanwhile they advised me 
that the Dutch nation had made a truce with the Portuguese for ten 
years, and that I also had a share in it ; and as I had made peace 
with the said Hollanders I put myself with them in the aforesaid 
truce and in the partitions of territories which they made, as is 
evident from a letter^*^ which I have from the Governor-General 
of Jacatara in which he tells me to take possession of them, 
leaving the Portuguese with theirs, in order to go on paying the 
expenses incurred in my service. And from what I now see I 
understand that everything is being done contrariwise, and that they 
wish to take all for themselves ; and on this account I am coming to 
place myself with my army in these lowland territories of mine, in 
order to see the many wrongs that they have done. And if you 
wish to stand by the peace which I have made with the Dutch nation as 
long as the sun and moon endure, and to receive the payment of the 
expenses which they have incurred in my service, do you, Sirs, go and 
place yourselves in the fortress of Nigumbo, and having taken there 
your counsel as abovesaid, advise me of what is just and right ; and if 
not, let not the Dutch nation afterwards say that peace was broken 
through my fault, but through theirs. Our Lord, &c. On the 1st of 
May, 1646. 
Raja Singa Emperor 
of the Island S of Celiao. 
Address ; — To the Captain of the Fortification It^xmqueira] of the 
Hollanders, &c. 
[From] Raja Singa, Emperor of the [Island of] Ceilao, &c. 
Indorsements {in Dutch): — (1) Original from His Majesty. (2) 
Received through Nigumbo to-day, 11th May, 1646. (3) Received 
through Nigumbo, 11th May, 1646. 
Before the above reached Negombo Maatzuyker had 
addressed another letter to the King, dated May 10, in 
which he endeavoured in every way possible to appease 
the monarch's wrath.^^^ Raja Sinha had, however, already 
left Kandy for the low country, and on May 9 sent a second 
letter^^^ to the commander of the Dutch camp in the Seven 
Korales, as follows : — 
[3.] 
The captain of the fortress of Nigumbo v^rote me a letter^^^ in 
which he tells me that he is waiting in hope of a reply from the 
ambassador^^^ who came to Gale to order you^^* to withdraw to the 
