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itself. God keep Your Honour, &c. From the country residence of 
Bibile,^*" on Monday, at 10 o'clock, the 21st of June, in the year 1660. 
Those who in times past infected my imperial person with poison, 
sorceries, and treasons I resolved to put an end to by utterly destroy- 
ing them, as was patent to Your Honour and to your ensign,^^^ who on 
that occasion was present at this imperial court, who doubtless, it 
appears to me, would relate all these occurrences, as being present at 
them, and also in many other ways. And now with this severe indis- 
position, if God our Lord shall cast his divine eyes upon my imperial 
person, of those who serve me well with love and loyalty I shall 
advise Your Honour, and moreover if any one come from thence to see 
my imperial person in these afflictions I shall also display it to him, in 
order that he may remain on terms of friendship with those who serve 
me with fidelity. Our Lord, &c. 
ElKej*^- Singa 
Raja Raju. 
Just a month later the King addressed another letter^^ to 
the Dutch com7nandetir of Galle, as follows : — 
[26.] 
[I] Raja Singa Raju, Most Exalted Monarch, Most Potent and 
Most Magnificent Emperor of this far-famed Empire of 
Ceilao, send mucli greeting to the Governor of 
my Fortress of Gale. 
When my imperial person brought the Dutch nation to this my 
Empire of Ceilao it was that it might be in all things under my 
orders and service, and in obedience, fidelity, loyalty, and love, more 
than my native subjects ; and I always thought that in my afflictions 
you were remembering it. Let it be now present to Your Honours ; and 
therefore I chose you from among the many nations and strangers, and 
with double love honoured you, who also came doing your duty until 
recent times; and in these last few [years] several things happened which 
I held for afflictions, and after they had passed I informedYour Honours 
of my indisposition ; and now on this occasion you delay so much with 
the reply to my imperial letter, a thing which you never did before. 
I God our Lord do not .know how the time has changed, and until 
to-day I never thought in my imperial heart that Your Honours would 
show such dilatoriness in my affairs and service. However, God is 
great. Of late, when I was indisposed, I went several times to stay in 
my country residence of Nilamba*** on account of its being a cool and 
beautiful place in the interior on a flank of the mountains,^**^ where my 
imperial person got benefit, and now I have come to the city on account 
of the pereras^"^^^ and am about to leave for the said country residence 
of Nilamba to see if I can there with the favour of God get well of my 
