No. 55.— 1904.] RAJA SINHA II. AND THE DUTCH. 267 
Knox gives some interesting details regarding this good man^ 
whom he calls " Padre Yergonce " or " Yergonse (^Hist, Eel., pp. 188 - 
189). 
In ovig.feitoria, literally "factory." 
This is the date given by Yalentyn ; but as the letter doubtless 
accompanied the presents, the list of which is dated 19th September, 
the figure 5 may be an error. The Behnopte Historie, after 
summarising the contents of Yan Kittenstein's letter of 15th 
November, 1651, says : "Afterwards letters were again sent to the 
Candian court and received thence, but of no importance, and there- 
fore also unnecessary to detail anything of them here." The 
summary is resumed with Yan Kittenstein's letter of 15th January ,^ 
1653 (see C.A.S. Jl., XI., p. 49). 
Possibly the one presented to the King by Father Bergoncio. 
See note supra. The tenor of the letter from Yijayapala we 
are left to guess ; but we may infer somewhat of the contents from 
what is told us further on. 
See Eibeiro, lib. II., cap. XYII. ; Baldaeus, Ceylon^ cap. XLII. 
(XLIII. of Eng. trans.) ; Saar, in C.A.S. JL, XI., pp. 282, 283. 
See supra, note 
See note 2^^, supra, 
Yalentyn, Ceylon, p. 137. 
Yalentyn, loc. cit. See Ribeiro, cap. II., lib. XYII., regarding 
encounters between Raja Siigiha's troops and the Portuguese mutineers 
of the Menikkadawara camp. 
A letter written on 4th February, 1653, by the King of Portugal 
to the Yiceroy of India refers to the " Emperor of Candea " (meaning 
evidently Yijayapala), who was a pensioner in Goa, and who, the king 
says, was not to be allowed to come to Portugal or to go to Ceylon, nor 
were the Dutch to be allowed to get hold of him for their purposes. 
This was the yacht Jaffnapatnam (see trans, of Batavia Dagh- 
Register for 1653 in Cey. Lit. Reg,, II., p. 432). 
282 Yalentyn, u,s. 
283 Translated from the original (in Portuguese) in the Ceylon 
Record Office. 
284 This may have been Major Adriaan van der Meyden (see note 
291 ififra^, 
285 Ceylon, p. 137. 
286 For details see Saar's and Ribeiro's accounts, in C.A.S. JL, XI., 
pp. 285, 286 ; and Baldaeus, Ceylon, cap. XLII. (XLIII. of Eng. trans.). 
287 Ribeiro states (lib. II., cap. XYII.) that the battle took place not 
at Catagore (Kotuwagoda), but at Thiara (Tihariya). 
288 Log, cit, 
289 See Cey. Lit, Reg,, II., p. 432, 
Ceylon, p. 138. 
