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^ Given in full in BaldsBus, loc, cit. Ribeiro (lib. II., cap. V.) gives 
a very inaccurate account of the negotiations between Raja Sigha and 
the Dutch, and the principal features of a treaty which, he says, was 
agreed to in March^ 1638. 
The 10th article provided that, " It shall be permitted to the 
neighbours of Dauei and Tanzouwer, but no others, to come and go with 
their boats and mantimentos in His Majesty's dominions." The English 
translation has " the neighbouring nations of Dauey and TanjouwerT 
By Dauei (for Davei) doubtless the Maldives are intended. In his 
letters to the Dutch Government of Ceylon in the 18th century the 
Sultan of those islands called his kingdom Divehi Rajje. 
See W. van Geer, Ophomst^ &c., pp. 41-42. 
See Coster's letters of 14th June and 2nd July in Cey, Lit. Reg.^ II. ^ 
p. 62. The story of a serious Portuguese loss, retailed in the late 
letter on the testimony of the native " Governor " of Batticaloa 
district, is clearly a cock-and-bull invention {cf. W. van Geer, op. cit., 
pp. 4:^-44). 
See Baldaeus, loc. cit. 
See Coster's letter of 31st December, 1638, in Cey. Lit. Reg., IT., 
p. 52. 
70 See Cey. Lit. Reg., II., p. 76. 
71 See Cey. Lit. Reg., II., p. 59. 
72 1 do not know when Coster left Batticaloa for Goa, whither he had 
been ordered to go to inform Admiral Caen of the condition of affairs 
in Ceylon. He was to have gone in the Valch apparently ; but this 
vessel seems to have been] lost (see Coster's letter of 31st December, 
ubi supra). We next hear of him as Vice-Commander of the Dutch 
fleet that captured Trincomalee in April, 1639. 
73 According to W. van Geer (Ophomst, &c., p. 46), Caen's whole 
fleet had on 12th March dropped anchor before Colombo, expecting to 
be supported in an attack on that fort by the Kandyan forces operating 
from the land side {of. Baldaeus, end of chap. XXI.). But finding no 
sign of Raja Sinha's troops, the Dutch Admiral, after some interchange 
of cannon shots, sailed in disgust towards the end (rather in the early 
part) of April for Trincomalee. 
74 See Cey. Lit. Reg., II., p. 180 ; and C.A.S. Journ., X., p. 123 et seq. 
Ribeiro (lib. II., chap. VI.) gives a very erroneous account of the 
capture of Batticnloa and Trincomalee, both of which places, he says, 
were taken by the Hollanders in February, 1639. 
75 The King himself acted in a similar fashion at the recapture of 
Negombo in 1644. 
76 See C.A.S. Journ., X., pp. 123-140 ; W. van Geer, Ophomst, &c., 
pp. 47-48 ; Cey. Lit. Reg., II., p. 116. 
77 See W. van Geer, op. cit., p. 48. 
78 See the extract from the Council's letter of 9th November, 1638, 
to Caen, in W. van Geer's OpJcomst, &c., p. 46 
