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On August 8 Maatzuyker replied^^^ to the above letter^ 
informing the Kingi that he had signed the conditions of 
peace on behalf of the Company, at the same time taking 
exception to the 10th article, which deprived the Dutch of 
the monopoly in cinnamon that had been granted to them. 
With His Majesty's envoys he sent two of the Company's 
servants,^^* one to swear to the conditions of peace and the 
other to remain at the court. The King's request for a 
secretary had been forwarded to Batavia, but if His Majesty 
preferred to employ one of the Hollanders already at his 
court he might do so, but for a term of five years only. 
He thanked the King for acceding to the request that a 
Hollander should be appointed disava of Matara ; and 
begged that when the present incumbent left Lambert 
Camholt225 might be appointed. The Dutch envoys would 
beg His Majesty to allow the Hollanders to retain possession 
of Negombo until they had taken Colombo from the 
Portuguese. He had intended to send Camholt as commis- 
sary to the king ; but, as the former had fallen ill,226 
Burchard Cocx^^r ^^s to go instead with some small gifts.^^^ 
On August 8 the King also wrote to Maatzuyker sending 
him a ring, a gold chain, and a tusked elephant,^^^ for which 
gifts the Dutch Governor thanked His Majesty in a letter 
dated September 9, in which he also stated that all that the 
King asked for should be sent as speedily as possible, and 
that he was then sending His Majesty a machine for raising 
heavy weights and also some bars of native steel .^^^ On 
November 16 Raja Sinha again wrote to Maatzuyker ; and 
on December 3 the envoy Cocx returned,^^^ bringing the 
conditions of peace signed by the King and several of the 
Dutch prisoners. On December 27 Maatzuyker replied, 
informing the King that Jacob van Kittenstein, who was 
to succeed him as Governor, had landed that day from 
Batavia, thanking him for a breast-jewel, and stating that 
he had not heard from Batavia regarding Negombo and the 
war with the Portuguese.^^^ At the end of this year (1649) 
Pieter Kief t^^^ was sent as commissary to Kandy ; and on 
