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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XVIII. 
Pieter Boreel was the commissioner sent from Batavia to arrange 
with the Portuguese authorities the terms of an armistice (see W. van 
G-eer, op, cit., p. 94 et seq.). 
That is, the districts over which the Dutch were to exercise 
authority (see infra). 
Port, tregoas, armistice. 
Sic for Acura9a, i.e., Akuressa. Regarding the disastrous defeat 
of the Dutch by the Portuguese at Akuressa in May, 1643, see Ribeiro, 
lib. II., cap. XIII. ; Bat. Dagh-Reg,, i643-44, pp. 221-222 ; C.A.S. 
Jl., XVII., pp. 413, 420, 444. 
Colombo was not taken by the Dutch until twelve years later ; 
and its capture did not afEord E-aja Si^ha the satisfaction he antici- 
pated (see his letters infra). 
See W. van Geer, op. cit, pp. 129-132, and Bijl.,XXVIII .; Bat. 
Dagh-Eeg., 1644-1645, p. 266 et seq. ; Joh. von der Behr., Diariuniy 
pp. 38-43. 
See W. van Geer, op. cit., pp.134, 135; Bat. Dagh-Reg., 1644- 
1645, p. 291 £E ; Baldaeus, Mai. en Char., chap. XV.; Ribeiro, lib. II., 
cap. XVI. 
See W. van Geer, op. cit., Bijl., p. 77; C.A.S. Jl., XL, p. 36; 
Bat. Dagh-Reg., 1643-44, p. 234 et seq. 
127 Yor details of occurrences in Ceylon subsequent to the Dutch- 
Portuguese agreement of 10th January, 1645, seeW. van G-eer, op. cit., 
p. 136 et seq.; Bat. Dagh-Reg., 1644-45, p. 295 ; Cey. Lit. Reg., 
VI., pp. 92, 93, 98-100, 107-109, 114, 115, 123, 124. 
128 Translated from the original letter in Portuguese in the Ceylon 
Record Office. A contemporary Dutch translation is printed in the 
Bat. Dagh-Reg. for 1644-45, pp. 299-301. W. van Geer, op. cit., p. 
146, says erroneously : " During the whole year 1645 the maharaja 
had let nothing be heard of him." 
129 From a letter from the Governor-General and Council at Batavia, 
dated 9th July, 1645, printed by W. van Geer, op. cit., Bijl., XXX., we 
learn (p. 76) that Maatzuyker, before leaving Negombo on 15th 
February for Colombo and Galle, sent Raja Si^ha two letters, one in 
his own name and one in the name of the Council, informing him of 
the Dutch-Portuguese agreement, and asking him to kindly signify if 
he would also embrace {amplecteren) it, or not ; to which Maatzuyker 
received a reply when at Galle, serving little to the purpose. This 
reply is evidently the one here translated. 
130 In orig. F. (contraction for vossa merce, the ordinary polite 
form of address in Portuguese), which is used generally throughout 
this correspondence. I have rendered it in various ways, according to 
circumstances. 
131 Regarding Maatzuyker, see Cey. Lit, Reg., I., pp. 166-168. 
132 In orig. V. Ms. (plur.). 
133 Ti^-g is used here and elsewhere for disavanis (see note 
102 supra). 
