Chap.XXXI. ~A Defcripion of CEYL O 
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faid Camp, thefe Forces and Officers 
fliall be relieved by others, and fuch 
as have not done their duty to the 
Crown be pnnilhed, as is praclifed in 
the Gumps of other Great Kings and 
Monarchs. Your Excellency did aUo 
" give notice thitc you had lent away 9 
" Ships the ot this Month, God Al- 
" mighty I hope will blefs your EKcellen- 
cy's Deligns with Succefs, according to 
the utraolt of my Wilhes, there being 
" nothing that can more rejoice our Im- 
*' perial Majefty than the Welfare and 
Profperity of the Hullandcrs : And I 
hope, that after my arrival in the 
Gamp, fuch Meafures may be taken 
" betwixt us, as may foon reduce the 
City. The refradory Party among 
my Troops you have mentioned, fliall 
" be branded with Infamy, not only for 
" themfeives, but aUo their Generation ^ 
fo that their Names fhall be defpifed 
" hereafter for ever. Whenever I fliall 
fee your Perfon, I fliall imagine to have 
" the whole State of Holland before me i 
" and fince according to our Conftitu- 
" tions Matters of this nature are not to 
tranfadted but on fortunate Days and 
" Hours, your Excellency fliall be adver- 
" tifed thereof by fome Perfon of note. 
Jufl: as I was leaving Candy, the Prince 
" my Son, given me by God for the 
" Welfare of my faithful Hollanders^ 
" took leave of me, defiring to be re- CN/V^ 
membred to your Erccellency. T^^JJ 
In the Ctmp of Guinmi- 
bula, Fi.-i.i8. 105^. 
Ra}a Stnga Rajou. 
The fiid Mr. Hartman was prefented ^^^J^^'^!^ 
by the Emperor with a tame Elephant, ,4'^ '^n 
and told the General, that the Emperor Elephant, 
had given him fome private hints, that 
the Prince his Soj would take it as a 
peculiar Obligation, if the General 
would honour him with a fmall Prefent, 
The Emperor's Diffavcs coming the 21/^ 
of February to the General, in order to 
fetch the Anfwer to the Emperor's 
Letter, they were told, that the Letter 
was not finiflied, by reafon of many 
things of moment to be inferted therein : 
But the General took this opportunity to 
advife with them what Prefent might be 
mofl: acceptable to the Prince. They an- 
fwered, they could not tell, but would 
confider of the matter. In the After- 
noon they received the defired Letter 
fealed up under the Difcharge of the Can- 
non, as is ufual upon fuch occaftons, when 
each of the Captains is prefented with a 
piece of Sattin, and two of the Dijfaves 
with a red Roan Cap, a thing highly 
valued by them (called T opfy Bonday Th 
their Language) with a Japonefe Buckler 
for one of the Prince's Attendants. 
CHAP. XXXI. 
The Bejiegedjire furioujly upon the Befegers. The Emperor"* s Envoys.' Negro 
Deferters forced back. Letters intercepted. The Emperor prefents the Gene, 
ral with an Elk. A new Battery ereBcd. 
The B,f,eg- ^ H E iidoi February the Enemy play'd 
eci fire 1 furioufly with their Cannon 
S'flfE Baftions of St. Stephen and St. 
ficicru y^^^^''-, 3nd kill'd us feveral Men. His Ma- 
jefty being that day come to his Camp at 
Reygamwatte^ to take a view of the Quar- 
ters prepared for his reception, perceiv- 
ing a more than ordinary Smoke, fenc 
a Meflenger to know the truth of the 
matter. In the Evening about Supper- 
time, word was brought that certain De- 
pucys from his Majefl:y were arrived at a 
Farm about two Miles from the Camp, 
and that they had fent a Meflenger to 
fignify, that they weredefirous to fpeak 
with the General that Evening j which 
being readily granted, an Enfign was 
fent thither with fome Soldiers to con- 
dud them to the Camp, and to make an 
E.xcufe, that the time of the Night kad 
hindred their Reception to be futable to 
their Quality. They told the General,^ 
that his Majefty had received his Letter 
with a great deal of Satisfaction, and that 
they were fent to tell his Excellency, that Eeputys: 
his Majefly was at prefent atWalewittyJl-ntinti 
and that as foon as his Qjiarters were fit- ^^^^ '^•"^^ 
ted up, he fliould be fent for ^ for which f 
reafon they were commanded by his Ma- 
jelly to order the Dtjjave of Saffragamme 
to have the Roads leading to Rcygamvpnttc 
repaired. They would willingly have 
returned the fame night •, but it being 
exceflive dark, their Quarters were af- 
figned them in the Camp till next morn- 
ing. 
The fame day Edmund Ruyfch fent word, 
that a great number of poor Wretches 
were coming out of the City : The Men, 
to the number of 50, were fccurcd at 
Milagre j 
