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such trouble to no purpose. Our Lord, &c. Tambaravilla, to-day the 
first of June, 1646. 
Raja Singa, Emperor ^ of the Island of Ceilao. 
Address : — To the Captain of the fortress of Nigumbo. God [keep 
?],&c. 
[From] Raja Singa, Emperor of the [Island] of Ceilao. 
Indorsements (in Dutch) : — (1) Received primo June, 1646. (2) 1646, 
original missive written by the King of Candia to the Captain of 
Nigombo from Tambaravilla dato primo June. 
Ten days later the king sent * another letter^^^ to the 
Commandeur of Negombo as follows : — 
[6.] 
In the letter that I wrote to you, Sir, on the 26th of May,^^* I 
informed you that when the answer came to what I wrote to the 
ambassador who came from Jacatara, I should reply to yours in con- 
formity to your wish. The answer which has come from Gale does 
not reply to that which I wrote to him, for putting my letter on one 
side he has written what he likes.^^^ With this goes a letter^^^ for 
the said ambassador in which I request him to reply to me definitely 
with something certain. I also grant him the permission which he 
begged of me in one [letter] that he wrote me on the 10th of May,^^^ 
to come and present himself before me and discuss with me certain 
affairs of importance, and bring me the letter and the present which 
the Councillors of the States of India sent me from Jacatara. The 
bearers of this are two iasquarins, natives of this my Island of CeilaO, 
one of them of the Moorish race ; with them go four other persons, 
natives of the same [Island], to accompany them.^^^ Will you send 
them on with all possible dispatch by a safe road and without risk ? 
At present nothing more suggests itself. Our Lord, &c. From this 
<3amp at Tamaravila on the 11th of June, ] 646. 
Raja Singa, Emperor ^ of the Island of CeilaO. 
Address : — To the Captain of the fortress of Nigumbo. God keep 
you, &c. 
From Raja Singa, Emperor of the Island of Ceila5. 
Indorsement (in Dutch) : — Received June 11, 1646. 
To the letter sent with the above for Maatzuyker the 
latter replied on June 21 in the following vigorous lan- 
guage : — 
His Majesty's letter of the 10th instant has been duly received, 
but found to be of a different purport from what was expected. 
