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may be ordered him, and when he comes here the patent shall be 
given to him, and there shall be for the Dutch nation very great 
honour : and if it seem not well to Your Honour and you do not wish to 
send him here, I shall send another dissava, a native of these my realms. 
In times past there resided here a Dutch secretary ,2^^ who served me 
with satisfaction, who is dead ; and others are here who serve me, 
some as soldiers, others in other offices ; and that he should conform 
to this usage would please me greatly. Your Honour says that the 
€haleas of the Seven Corlas who are with the Portuguese have not yet 
been given up by them very well, I can command them to come, and 
the Portuguese will not resist me. The profits and rents of this dissava 
of Mature are in my land register book, what it amounted to anywhere 
during these past years ; and Your Honours will thus receive cinnamon, 
as well as areca, pepper, and mines of precious stones, and the customs 
of the ports and the rents of the lands, iron, elephants, aleas, and 
other things besides. Let Your Honour compare these with the 
expenses that the Company has incurred in my service, and of that 
which Your Honours receive send me by the ambassador who is to 
come a list, and likewise what is still due to the Company. 
After we had taken the fortress of Nigumbo the first time, when I 
was with my army at Galolua,^^^ there came a Hollander by the name 
of Cornelio^^^ to go by land and deliver up the fortress of Triquina- 
male and send away those that were in the said fortress. Therefore 
in the company of the ambassador who is to come and swear to the 
conditions of peace let Your Honour send a discreet person to deliver 
up to me the fortress of Nigumbo in like manner as that of Triquina- 
male was delivered up. 
Having been unwell in times past, on account of an expression which 
the ambassador used I was displeased with him ; but he has since 
exonerated himself, saying that he did not use such an expression, 
but that it was a mistake of the Hollander who acted as interpreter ; 
on account of this satisfaction which he has made, and as Your Honour 
wrote and asked me to forgive him the fault, I once again admitted 
him to my favour ; and having withdrawn that expression no other 
blame attached to him, but on the contrary, he has behaved up to the 
present with much satisfaction and honour. And for this reason I sent 
him on this mission, and shall be pleased if the Company will pay him 
many honours.^^^ 
Your Honour said in your last letter that with the horse you were 
sending a good saddle in the Dutch style, and that if I was pleased 
with it and let you know you would send me another much better, and 
also other things. Up to the present it has not reached me ; however, 
that Your Honour should send to me in such a good spirit rejoices me 
as much as if it had already been presented to me. Our Lord, &c. 
From this imperial court and city of Imgaragala^-^ on the 27th of June, 
[1]649. 
Raijasinga Raiju, Most Potent ^^^^ Emperor of Ceilao. 
