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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [YOL. XVIII. 
van Geer, op. ciL, pp. 74-119, and BijL, XIII.-XXIV.; Bat. Dagh- 
Reg.y 1641-42 and 1643-44 ^assm. That the Council at Batavia had 
lost all faith in Raja Si^ha's sincerity is shown by the fact that on 
29th September, 1643, they wrote to the King advising him of the fleet 
they were sending to Ceylon under Caron, but telling him nothing of 
their plans (see W. van Geer, op, ciL, p. 108). See also Cey. Lit. Eeg., 
II., pp. 84, 85, 67, IV., pp. 31, 36 ; Baldaeus, MaL en Chor., chaps. 
XIV.-XV. ; Ribeiro, lib., II., caps. XV.-XVI. 
99 See Ribeiro, lib. II., cap. XV.; Cey. Lit. Reg,, VI., p. 87; W. van 
G-eer, op. cit,, pp. 125-128. 
See C.A.S. Jl., XVII., pp. 315, 316, 334, 335, 375, 400, 531, 532, 505. 
The Bat. Dagh-Reg. for 1643-44 states (p. 235) that on February 22, 
1644, Raja Sip^ha sent three envoys to Caron to ask if they did not 
know that he was descended from the sun, and to complain that 
he was not addressed by the Governor-General in accordance with his 
royal dignity, since that official had written him a letter signed 
Your affectionate friend," which did not square with his Imperial 
Majesty's ideas, and had also written " you " instead of " Your Royal 
Majesty ; " that they laid the death of Coster at his door, and other 
such-like concocted futilities (opyeraepte futiliteyten). 
101 The original has disappeared. A contemporary Dutch translation 
is printed at pp. 507-508 of the Bat. Dagh- Register for 1643-44, the 
compiler of which, on p. 238, describes this and the following letter of 
Raja Siyha's as containing " blauwe excusen " (mere excuses) for 
the non-fulfilment of the royal promises. 
102 rpijjQ word disava was used by the Portuguese for disdvani as well 
to denote the holder of the office, the sense being indicated by the 
masculine or feminine article. Cf. letter of February 16, 1645, and 
others infra. 
The Bat. Dagh-Reg. for 1643-44 says (p. 234) that on February 
22, 1644, Gerrit Moutmaker, writing from Galle, reported that "Radja 
Singa had ordered and commanded all the cinnamon peelers and 
inhabitants of Gale Corle to take up their residence not nearer than 
six to seven miles from Gale. At the same time he had summoned 
some of the chief of our special Singalese, on account of the great 
familiarity entertained by them towards the Netherlanders, among 
them the dessanacJca, to come to him to Candy to be punished, and 
had ordered no provisions to be brought to our people, in the hope that 
they might thereby come to suffer want.'* The same Dagh-Reg.^ 
quoting Ceylon letters of April 24, 1644, says (p. 238) : "After the 
king's dessave Ekenack modliaer had had all the inhabitants around 
Gale conveyed three or four miles into the mountains, he finally once 
more on April 16 appeared in Gale with the intention of dominating 
from there all the fishers, tisidoors (read tifidoors, i.e., toddy-drawers), 
and the rest, being in our service. Whereupon one of his lascarins, who 
was caught attempting to put this into practice, was clapped into 
