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Honour arranged with the Portuguese agree in no point with the 
conditions of peace which we made and swore to in Batecalou ; nor 
moreover do they fulfil what my much loved and valued Director- 
General wrote me in his letters and what he promised in my imperial 
presence, nor with what Your Honour after his death promised me 
many times in your letters. In addition to all this Your Honour 
treated with the Portuguese regarding the modeliares, araches, lascarins, 
and other native folk of this Empire, that they should be well treated, 
favoured, and honoured if they should remain under the orders of Your 
Honour. When my imperial person heard this I had no desire to 
know more as respects the other points, because I did not bring the 
Dutch nation to this my Empire nor laboured up till now for them to 
act thus towards me, and there is no cause for congratulation that 
Your Honour should now act otherwise. Nothing further suggests 
itself. Our Lord, &c. From this great camp and court of Eagamvata, 
on Friday, at 10 o'clock at night, on the 12th of May of the year 1656. 
Kaja Singa Raju, Most Potent ^ Emperor of Ceilao. 
Indorsement (in Dutch) : — Original missive written by His Royal 
Majesty of Candia to Governor Yan der Meyden, in dato 12th May, 1656. 
What Yan der Meyden's reply to the above was I do not 
know ; but the strained relations between the allies grew 
worse daily, and frequent encounters took place between the 
Dutch and Kandyan forces, while many lowcountry Sinha- 
lese deserted the Hollanders and joined the royal ranks.^^^ 
On May 21 the King sent the following letter^*^^ ^-^^ Dutch 
commander : — 
[20.] 
[I] Eaja Singa Raja, Most Exalted Monarch, Greatest and Most 
Potent Emperor of this far-famed Empire of Ceilao, to 
Adriaen Yan der Meiden, Governor of my Imperial 
Fortress of Gale, send much greeting. 
My imperial person took much trouble to get the Dutch nation 
to come to this my Empire, and likewise when Admiral Adao 
Yestrevolt arrived with the vessels of the fleet at this my Empire 
in the meantime my imperial person had gone to capture the fortress 
of Baticalou, and in that very place I made conditions of peace with 
the said nation ; and after they had been made, sworn to, and 
confirmed, the officers of the said nation who came to this my 
Empire did not fulfil them so and in such manner as had been agreed. 
And after this the captain of my imperial fortress of Gale, Brocardo 
Coqx, whom they call Captain Coconut,^*^^ along with the Commissary 
