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JOURNAL, R. A..S. (CEYLON). [YOL. XYIII. 
On February 20, Baldaeus states,^''^ Lieutenant Joannes 
Hartman^''^ came back with a letter from Raja Sinha to 
General Hulft, which ran as follows: — 
Raja Singa Rajou, &c. 
The letter that Your Honour wrote on the 8th of February to this 
imperial court reached my hands safely on the followmg day, the 9th^ 
In it Your Honour says that you are waiting with great eagerness for 
permission to appear before my royal presence, and at the same time to 
demonstrate the true friendship and affection with which the Honour- 
able Company strives to persevere to the end in my imperial service,^'^ 
from the day that you landed from your ships in my Empire. I have 
always thought in my imperial heart that Your Honour would come 
to speak with my imperial person ; and this my wish will God the 
Lord grant me when Your Honour shall appear before me in the 
camp at Reygamwatte. Your Honour also said in your letter that the 
iascaryns of the dissaves had committed some great faults. When 
my imperial person shall come into the next camp I shall then also 
send other captains with their men thither, and recall to me those 
who have hitherto been stationed there, and those who have committed 
any fault against the King's crown shall, after matters have been 
heard and considered, be punished, as is customary among the 
kings and monarchs of the world. Your Honour also stated in the 
same letter that on the 5th of this month you dispatched nine ships.. 
Grod the Lord grant Your Honour at all times such an outcome of affairs 
as I wish from my heart. For my imperial person rejoices in the 
highest degree when I learn of the welfare and prosperity of the 
Hollanders, as G-od the Lord, according to my wish, shall grant them. 
When my imperial person shall have arrived at the above-said camp, 
I hope that (with Your Honour's advice and that which I have taken 
beforehand) the capture of the city will not be long delayed. As 
regards the evil-doers, they shall receive another name, not for them- 
selves only, but also for their family, whereby they and all their 
kindred shall endure lasting infamy. With the arrival of Your Honour^s 
person when you shall appear before me, I shall picture to myself 
that the whole of Holland stands before me, and because, according to 
our laws, a good day and hour are needful and must be chosen for 
that, I shall let Your Honour be informed thereof by a person of rank. 
When I left Candy the Prince my son, whom God the Lord 
permitted to be born for the welfare of my upright and true Holland, 
took leave of me and begged me to tell you these things.^^^ 
(Signed) Raja Singa Rajou. 
In the Camp in Guiramibula, 
18th February, 1656. 
