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of January. My imperial person heard all that was contained in the 
said letter, and I was greatly rejoiced that Your Honour enjoyed good 
health, and from the day that Your Honour came to this my empire of 
Ceila5 for my imperial service, immediately in the first letter that was 
presented to me from Your Honour my imperial person recognized in it 
the great fidelity, love, goodwill, and perfect truth with which you are 
serving me ; and likewise when the said captain delivered into my 
imperial hands the letter of Your Honour, and also what you told him 
verbally, [my] imperial person deemed that Your Honour yourself 
[ '"^ person and [with] your own mouth before my imperial 
presence ; and so I received all as perfect truth into my imperial heart, 
and I rejoiced to an extent that my imperial person cannot make 
manifest to you by words in this [letter] . At the time when Your 
Honour laid siege with the camp of my Hollanders to the city [of 
Columbo], and attacked by battery the said city, my imperial person 
was about, without thinking of good or evil hours, to set out with my 
imperial army, when in the meanwhile news reached this my imperial 
court that after engaging in the said war they had retired, and remained 
fortified in oar entrenchments ; and then the nobles of my imperial 
court, as soon as they heard of the ill-success that had ensued, gave me 
counsel, it being a custom and usage in this my Empire of CeilaS and of 
our law, that the following month was not good for my imperial person 
to make any journey whatsoever ; and for this reason I delayed making 
this journey. To-day, which is Thursday afternoon, I shall give leave 
to the captain of the guard in order to convey the news to Your Honour 
that my imperial person leaves the same day at night. At present 
nothing further suggests itself. Our Lord, &c. From the camp and 
imperial court of Balane, on the 20th of January of the year 1656. 
Eaja SiNGA Raju, Most ^ Potent Emperor of Ceilao, &c. 
On February 14 or 15 Hulft received another letter^^^ 
from the King, as follows 
Raja Singa Rajou. 
My imperial person when young in years gained the victory (by 
God's favour) over his enemies in Malvane, where I defeated the whole 
camp of Don Constantino,^^^ after which I besieged the town of 
Oolumbo, being encamped in the garden of Louys Gomes Pinto.^^^ 
Then it pleased God to visit me with sickness ; and as soon as the 
Yiceroy^^^ received the news thereof he at once came into the camp 
before Columbo, saying that I should betake myself to my kingdom 
of Candy ; and my person, having heard his royal word, returned with 
all diligence to Candy, allowing to remain before the city my brother 
Carnana Singa,^^^ King of Ouva, and with him Prince Vigiapala, who 
