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*^ E has shall rejoice us with their light.'' 
E has " shall continue in the JBrmament." 
^7 See W. van Geer's Opkomst van het NederL Gezag over Ceilon^ 
p. 34. 
Afterwards Governor of Malacca, and subsequently a member 
of the Council of India. Yalentyn gives his name as Jan Thyszoon 
Payart. Baldaeus (Ceylon^ p. 44 /) states that it was by order of the 
Council at Batavia that Thyssen was sent as one of the envoys. 
49 See Bald^us, chap. XVIII. (XIX. of English trans.) ; also 
summary in C.A.S. Journ., XI., p. 29. 
See Baldaeus, loc, cit. ; also Cey, Lit. Reg., 11., p. 69, where a 
translation of the letter (dated November 21, 1637) is given. 
See Baldaeus, loc. cit. ; also summary in C.A.S. Journ., XI., p. 30- 
The Dutch translation in Baldaeus has : — " The aforesaid Ship 
Governor writes me of one or two cargoes of pepper ; y,, K may perhaps 
send five ships, in order to capture the fortress of Batecalo, and to 
erect another in those ports, also to take all the cinnamon that 
might be there." For " Ship Governor " the German version has 
simply Governor," and instead of " pepper " it has " cinnamon." 
If Karel Reyniers was the person referred to as " Scheeps G( verneur " 
(a curious title), certainly there is in his letter of October 20, 1637, 
no reference to pepper ; but he may have written the King a subse- 
quent letter. " Die Jiavenen " (" those ports ") is, I think, a misprint 
for "cZ«e haven ("that port"); though the German version has 
" und einige andere, sich in die Hafen zu machen ;" and the English 
translation quite incorrectly says, " and some other vessels to other 
harbours, in order to take in all the cinnamon that is to be had 
there." 
53 The English translation has, " and then are to return to Jacatra, 
in order to return afterwards with all possible speed to the harbour of 
Columbo," &c. ; which, though justified by the German version, is not 
in accordance with the statement of the Dutch, and is a manifest 
blunder. 
5* See description in Baldaeus, chap. XIX. (English translation, chap. 
XX.). 
55 Regarding this man see Cey, Lit. Reg.^ III., p. 159. 
56 Baldaeus says, "110 men and 70 soldiers." The English trans- 
lation wrongly has "180 men and 70 soldiers." 
5' The Danes, undeterred by the ill-success of the expedition to 
Ceylon under Boschhouwer and Ove Giedde in 1618-20, seem to have 
at this time renewed their attempts to gain a footing in the Island. 
Danvers's Rep. on Port. Records says (p. 152) v — " The President of 
the Danish East India Company (Bernard Pessar), who was then on 
friendly terms with the Portuguese, informed the Viceroy, under date 
the 21st September, 1637, that the Dutch were preparing to blockade 
Malacca, Ceylon, and Goa." And elsewhere (p. 134) : — " In the year 
