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Raja Sinha's birthplace {cf, Malidvansa^ XCV. ; Knox, Hist. 
Rel.^ p. 5). It will be noticed that several of the letters in this series 
were written at Bintenna. 
I find no reference elsewhere to this matter. 
Valentyn, u, s. The compiler of the Behnopte Historie passes 
over this and all subsequent letters down to that of Kittenstein of 15th 
January, 1653, as " not of sufficient importance to deserve mention " 
(see C.A.S. Jl., XL, p. 49). 
Valentyn, u. s. 
According to Tennent, Ceylon^ IL, p. 48, footnote, whence I 
quote the extract given. Tennent says : I have a curious MS. 
letter written by him in Portuguese from Badulla, 6th August, 1652, 
and addressed To the Governor Jacob Von [sic] Kittenstein, residing in 
my Fortress of Galle as my loyal vassal'' How this letter, which 
€vidently ought to be in the Ceylon Record Office, came to be in 
Tennent's possession, we can only surmise. The manner in which the 
Dutch records have been preserved (!) is a scandal to Ceylon. 
It will be seen from subsequent documents that the Dutch did 
their best to gratify the King's wishes {cf. also the note in Tennent 
referred to above). 
In his letter of 11th May, 1656, to the citizens of Colombo (given 
below) Raja Si^ha speaks of this man as having come as ambassador 
to his court. Who he was I do not know (possibly a descendant or 
connection of the infamous General of Ceylon and Viceroy of India of 
the same name). Nor can I find any other reference to his mission, 
the Portuguese authorities being very defective as regards Ceylon at 
this period (cf, Ribeiro, lib. IL, cap. XVII., where only a page is devoted 
to the six and a half years, May, 1646, to October, 1652). He may, 
however, have been the bearer of the letter to Raja Si^ha from the 
King of Portugal (dated 15th March, 1652) printed in the C.A.S. 
Jl., XVI., p. 34. Ribeiro states (Zoc. cit.^ that in September, 1652, 
advice was received in Colombo from the new Viceroy that the truce 
had terminated, and that war with the Dutch would be resumed : it 
seems likely, therefore, that the same dispatch boat that brought these 
tidings carried the envoy to the Kandyan court. He is referred to 
again in Kittenstein's letter of 26th October, infra. 
See Ribeiro, lib. I., cap. X. 
Valentyn, u.s. 
Translated from the original (in Portuguese) in the Ceylon 
Record Office. 
See Yule's Hohson-Johson, s.v. " Mangelin," where the following 
is quoted from A. Nunez (1545) : " (In Ceylon) A calamja contains 
20 mamgelinSj each mamgelin 8 grains of rice ; a Portugues of gold 
weighs 8 calamjas and 2 mangelins.'^ 
Joris Blom, doubtless. 
