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Pieter Kieft appears to have left the royal court before 
this, for on January 10, 1652, Raja Siriha wrote : — ^56 
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[I] Raja Singa Raju, Most Potent Emperor of CeiJao^ send to the 
Commissary Pedro Kuieft much greeting. 
The letter^^^ that my Governor of my fortress of Gale wrote me 
reached this imperial court of Bintena on the 19th of December. I 
esteemed it as much as if you had come in your own person to present 
it. Until the bad months that are now on, when travelling cannot be 
done, are past, I am going to stay and recruit at this my country seat 
of Bintena but when they have ended, by the favour and help of 
God, I intend to leave at once for my city of Badula, in order to make 
from there the journey that I had planned ; and, if in the meanwhile 
you have not yet arrived there, T shall then reply to the letter which I 
have received from my Governor of my fortress of Gale. 
I have been informed that a Dutch captain from that my fortress of 
Gale with another captain of the same nation from the fortress of 
Nigumbo, which stands without my orders, went to the city of Columbo 
to treat with the Porfcuguese.^^^ If in the aforesaid manner there 
was between them and the said Portuguese any agreement, my Hollan- 
ders ought to have ere this advised me of everything ; but as these 
things have come to my royal notice, for this reason I address these 
lines to you, in order that you may advise me briefly of all that has in 
truth passed, by the same bearer who takes this. 
I would remind you that you should always bear in mind the negoti- 
ations and other matters of which you took charge from this court, in 
order that they may not be forgotten. Nothing further suggests itself. 
Our Lord, &c. From this court and city of Bintena on the 10th of 
January, 1652, 
Raja Singa Raju, Most ^ Potent Emperor of Ceilao. 
Address : — R-aja Singa Raju, Most Potent Emperor of Ceilao, &c. 
To the Commissary Pedro Kuieft, in my fortress of Gale, &c. 
Indorsements (in Dutch) : — Received 26th January, 1652. Original 
missive from His Royal Majesty of Candia to the Commissary Kieft, 
written 10th January, 1652. 
On February 6, 1652, Governor Van Kittenstein wrote 
from Galle to the King, informing him of the departure for 
Batavia of Kieft (whose agreement had expired), and stating 
that the latter would make known to Their Honours by word 
of mouth His Majesty's good feeling towards the Dutch.^eo 
