No. 55.— 1904.] RAJA SINK A IT. AND THE DUTCH. 265 
subterfuges, and courtesies." (The translation of this passage in the 
C A.S. JL, XI., p. 48, is faulty.) What the object of the compiler 
Limberger was in substituting the above for a summary of the 
Governor's letter, I cannot tell. With regard to Rampot's doings, see 
Raja Sinha's letter of 3rd May, 1650, infra. 
Translated from the original (in Portuguese) in the Ceylon 
Record Office. 
.-^^ Here and in other places dissava is used, with the feminine article 
or pronoun, in the sense of disdvani. 
Valentyn, u. s, 
Kittenstein in his report to the Council at Batavia, dated 
20th September, 1660, says that, as a result of Maatzuyker's diplomatic 
management at the beginning of 1650, Rampot left the Galle and 
Matara districts at his own request ; and that the King was much 
annoyed thereat (Valentyn, Ceylon^ p. 143 ; see also Baldseus, Ceylon^ 
chap. XLII.). 
Valentyn, Ceylon, p. 135. 
2** Scarlet was originally the name of a stuff, and not of a colour 
(see Skeat's Etym. Diet., Yule's Hohson-Jobson, and Pringle's Consulta- 
tions of, Fort St. George, 1681, note 77). 
245 Valentyn, Ceylon, p. 136. 
2*6 See Raja Siigiha's letter of 10th August infra. Has was still a 
captive in Kandy in 1671 (see references to him in my Captain Robert 
Knox, and cf Raja Si^ha's letter of 4th May, 1656, infra^. 
2*7 Joris or George (not Juriaan) Bloem or Blom is referred to 
frequently in the next few years as interpreter between the Dutch 
and the King. 
2*s Raja Sigiha understood Portuguese well (see Knox, Hist. Eel., p. 
176), and had a strong objection to receiving letters in Dutch, unless a 
translation into Portuguese accompanied them (cf. his letters of 21st 
May and 13th June, 1656, infra). 
2*^ Valentyn, u. s. 
250 Translated from the original (in Portuguese) in the Ceylon 
Record Office. 
251 Whence this letter was written does not appear. 
2^2 gic^ Frans Has being referred to (see supra). 
253 gee heading of list of presents, dated 19th September, 1 652, infra ; 
and cf. Knox, Hist. Eel., p. 38, and the remarks of R. van Goens 
quoted in footnote on p. 13 of my Captain Eohert Knox. Cf. also the 
papers by Stark and Alwis in the C.A.S. Jl., 1853-55 and 1856-58. 
25* See Cey. Lit. Eeg., VI., p. 98 ; C.A.S. Jl., XI., p. 278 ; Valentyn, 
Ceylon, pp. 178, 201. 
255 Valentyn, u. s. (also C.A.S. Jl., XI., p. 49). 
256 Translated from the original letter (in Portuguese) in the 
Ceylon Record Office. 
257 This can hardly be the letter of 15th November summarized 
above. 
