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possession of it ; therefore let Your Honours send what officers you wish 
to carry out the handing over to him of the said fortress so and in 
such manner as is agreed to in the said terms of peace. It has several 
times come to my imperial notice that you had a wish to come to this 
imperial court : for this reason, when the said officers are dispatched to 
hand over the said fortress, let it be you who brings me the advice 
thereof, coming to present yourself before my imperial person ; and 
when you wish to depart first give notice of this to my dissavas. At 
present nothing further suggests itself. Our Lord, &c. From this 
great camp and court of Raganvata, on the 29th of May, in the year 
1656. 
With this there goes also a translation in the Dutch language. 
Raja Singa Raju, Most Potent ^ Emperor of Ceilao. 
Indorsement (in Dutcli): — Original missive written by His Royal 
Majesty of Candia to Mr. Joan Yanderlaan, in dato 29th May, 1656. 
As the King did not confine himself to mere complaints, 
but showed his displeasure by various acts^^^ of aggression, 
the Dutch Governor and Council addressed to His Majesty a 
letter^^o remonstrance and warning, at the same time asking 
Raja Sinha to send some disavas to take over Negombo after 
1;he fortifications had been destroyed. To further conciliate 
the King there were sent with this letter a falcon and two 
sparrow-hawks in charge of a Persian attendant. In acknow- 
ledgment of this letter and present Raja Sinha wrote on 
June 13, as follows : — 
[22.] 
[I] Raja Singa Raju, Most Exalted Monarch, Greatest and Most 
Potent Emperor of this far-famed Empire of Ceilao, 
to Adrianen Yander Meyden, Governor of my Imperial 
Fortress of Galle, send much greeting. 
The falcons which Your Honour sent to this imperial court with the 
Persian who bore them arrived thereat on the past Saturday, which 
was the 10th of this present month of June, and I was much pleased 
with them. The said falcons arrived at this imperial court as if they 
had not arrived, because the falconer who bore them had fallen sick. 
When this my imperial letter reaches there, if the said falconer be 
alive, send him without any delay to this imperial court, for my 
imperial person will be gladdened thereby ; and if he continue sick 
they will cure him here with much care and diligence. And since he 
came from such a distance intrusted to this imperial court, it is right 
and just that he should be accorded all that is due and all hospitality. 
