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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XVIII. 
February 5, 1650, Maatzuyker, in his last letter to Raja Sinha, 
stated that he learnt from Kieft that His Majesty was greatly 
displeased with the Dutch, saying that they had broken the 
peace, and (six) several times applying to the nation the 
opprobrious term casta hollandeza^ a thing that had never 
occurred previously, and the reason for which was unknown 
to him (the Governor), unless it were that His Majesty's 
disava Rampot had, as he had threatened to do, incited the 
King against the HoUanders.^^^ At the end of February, 1650, 
Maatzuyker left Ceylon, leaving for the guidance of his 
successor, Jacob van Kittenstein, lengthy instructions, in 
which he recapitulated the events which had occurred since 
the Dutch obtained a footing in Ceylon, and impressed upon 
the new Governor the necessity for a firm policy in dealing 
with the KingP^ 
Governor Van Kittenstein wrote on April 1 to the King 
begging him to appoint a Dutch disava, thanking him for a 
quantity of cinnamon which had been loaded on board a 
Dutch ship at Chilaw, and stating that he was sending 
to Batticaloa a vessel on which were a Tuticorin bell and a 
jack-screw {dommekrachf) for His Majesty, which ship 
was to bring to Galle the sick prisoners released by the 
King,236 On the following day, April 2, Van Kittenstein 
again addressed a letter to the King, complaining in strong 
terms of the conduct of the adigar Rampot,^^'' who had 
made an incursion into the territories of Matara, had driven 
away the Dutch guards at Kirama and Katuwana, and placed 
his own guards there, wherefore the Hollanders had under 
the Governor's orders driven the native troops out of the 
Matara territories, which act he trusted would meet with His 
Majesty's approval, and that he would recall Rampot 
thence.2^^ Raja Sinha replied in a letterj^*"^^ dated May 3, as 
follows : — 
[8.] 
[I] Raija Singa Raiju, Most Potent Emperor of Ceilao, send 
to the Governor of my Fortress of Gale much greeting. 
The letter which Your Honour wrote me from my fortress of Gale on 
the 1st of April was presented to me at this my imperial court of 
