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vassals and the Hollanders who were to serve like themselves might 
live in much quiet, and for the increase of my imperial fame, and that 
the Company might get great profits : and this is what I have in my 
imperial heart ; and if they will not understand, God will find a 
remedy. 
You state in your letter that the Governor-General of Batavia will 
be very sorry. If the said Governor-General and the Company are 
persons who keep their words, they have reason to be sorry, and if 
this shall go on after this manner there will follow more and more 
sorrows. 
In times past the Dutch nation has declared to me many things, 
and in all that I have found no truth. "When my imperial person 
summoned the said Dutch nation to this my Empire the principal 
cause was that they might help me, and likewise capture the city of 
Columbo : since the most serene and famous Raju who was King of 
Ceitavaca laid several sieges to it*^^ and could not take it, and for this 
reason I took into my imperial heart to capture it ; and that they 
might serve me like my own vassals ; and after capturing the said city 
they did things which are now patent to all the world, and of all this 
whatever they shall find out in course of time [ '-^ ] 
that they will practise ; and for these aforesaid reasons my imperial 
person is no longer free in this. 
The Portuguese have written a letter to this imperial court ; along 
with this I send a copy thereof that you may see it. The said Portu- 
guese, in spite of the ills that I have done them, and the other 
strangers are esteeming me very well, &c. From this great camp and 
court of Ragamvata, on the 23rd of October, 1656. 
Raja Singa Raju, Most Potent (§ Emperor of Ceilao. 
Indorsement (in Dutch) : — 1656. Original missive, dato 23rd October, 
written by the King of Candia to Governor Adriaen van der Meyden. 
As Raja Sinha's hostilities continued increasingly, the 
Dutch proceeded, after repeated warnings, to drive him and 
his forces from the vicinity of Colombo and from his camp 
at Rayigamwatta.^27 xhis took place on November 10 and 11, 
1656 ; and for a time all communications between the erst- 
while allies ceased, whilst the Portuguese at Jaffna, to 
whom the King made overtures, sent back his envoy with 
<5ontumely.^28 ^fter the final expulsion of the Portuguese 
from Ceylon, however, following on the capture, in the 
early part of 1658, of Mannar and Jaffna by the Dutch, the 
latter appear to have made approaches to the Kandyan 
