No. 55.— 1904.] RAJA SINHA II. AND THE DUTCH. 259 
For details of the partition of territories between the Portuguese 
and the Dutch see Baldaeus, Mai, en Chor., chap. XY., and Bat. Dagh- 
Reg., 1644-45, pp. 292- 297, in both of which several of the names of 
korales, pattus, <§:c., are very incorrectly printed. As regards the places 
mentioned by Raja Si^ha (many of which are mispelt in the Dutch 
translation), *^ Uracapatu " = Udakahapattu, " Mendapatu "= Meda- 
patu, " Catugambala " = Katugampola, " Andapanduna " = Handa- 
panduna (see Bell's Rep. on Kegalla Dist,, p. 2), "Guindigora" = 
Kinigoda, " Parnacurd " = Paranakuru, "Glalbara " = Galboda. The 
^' river of Gurugora" is the Gurugoda-oya. The garaveto (gravet, 
hadavata) of Puapeti " is, I think, Bulatkohopitiya in Pata Bulatgama, 
hulat h2ivmg taken the place of puwak in the name (see Cey. Lit Reg,, 
IV., p. 148, where " Buare-Birge " is a misprint in the English trans, 
for Biiac-Bitge,'^ i.e. Puwakpitiya). 
Jan Mathijssen or Thijssen (see letters of 23rd March and 4th 
April, 1644, supra), 
Bangasais (see Yule's Hob son- Job son, s.v. " Bankshall "). 
Saguate, an Indo-Portuguese word from Persian saughat (see 
Monsr. S. R. Dalgado's Dialecto Indo-Portugues de Damoa, p. 30). In 
the public library at Evora is a manuscript, dated Goa, Jan. 1774, 
entitled " Certidoes sobre a Saogate (presente), que El Rey de Candea 
mandava a El Rey de Portugal pelo Padre Joao de Silveira, de Congre- 
gacao do Oratorio, e Missionario na Ilha de Ceilao." 
138 Tiiig encomium did not deter Thijssen from shortly afterwards 
declaring war against the writer. 
The Dutch translation has " Jegenwoordigh neit anders dan Gode 
bevolen," i.e., " At present nothing further than commended to God." 
Printed in Bat. Dagh-Reg. for 1644-45, pp. 301, 302. 
Don Filippe Mascarenhas, the Captain-General of Ceylon, left 
Colombo for Goa March 31, 1645, to succeed the Conde de Avciras 
as Viceroy of India (see Ribeiro, lib. II., cap. XVI. ; Bat Dagh-Reg. 
for 1644-45, p. 307). 
Th^B^i. Dagh-Reg. fov 1644-45 says (p. 307) that "from the 
letters written by the merchant Laurens Maerschalck in February, 
March, and April past [1645] from Batacaloa to the Governor Joan 
Thyssen it was understood that since the contract arranged with the 
Portuguese the Sinhalese had not supplied him with the least mainti- 
mentos either for money or otherwise, but had tried to consume him 
with hunger, which, if he had not had something in store, would 
consequently have followed ; and they are also not ashamed to say 
impudently right out that we and the Portuguese have divided 
the Island of Ceylon half and half. Moreover two bedes [Veddas], 
who had supplied the Company there secretly with wax, had 20 to 25 
days before been done to death by order of the Radja Reports 
were current daily that ambassadors with letters, a parcel of wax, and 
other goods from Radja were on the way, which was doubted, where- 
fore Maerschalck would wait for the arrival of the yacht Santvoort, 
