7 
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A Defcripion 0/ C E Y L O N. 
xxyv^ bad, a good Qiiantity of Briraftone and 
Saldicw. Saltpeter. No fooncr were we in pof- 
fefTion of Columbo^ but Raja Singa fhew'd 
his Dillatisfaftion by the following Let- 
ter. 
Sin- 
^ii Letter, 
" "V^EHcrday and the Day before yef- 
terday ic was reported at our 
Court, that there was a Treaty on 
" foot with the Portugueses about the 
" Surrender of the City, fincewhichi 
have received Intelligence, that the 
" fame is brought to efFed. If it be true, 
" you ought to have given notice there- 
" of to our Imperial Majefly, which is 
" the reafon, I can'c as yet give entire 
Credit to it ; But in cafe it fliould be 
fo, I defire to know with all poflible 
fpeed the Articles of the faid Treaty. 
" Whilll our Beloved Diredor-General 
was alive, I writ to him concerning 
certain matters he promifed ftiould be 
perform'd, which I defire you to rc- 
member. 
From our Im- 
perial Court 
at Reygam- 
natte. May 
II. 165^. 
Signed, 
Raja Singa Rajou^ Moft 
Potent Emperor of 
Ceylon- 
CHAP. XLT. 
Defer ters feverely funijhed. Raja Singa /i?r^/Wi' all Commerce with Hollan- 
ders. His Letter of Complaint. Divers Portuguefe Shifs taken. Raja 
Singa ravages and plunders the Lands and Suhp^s belonging to the Company. 
Deferters 1 ^ ^^^^ thought high time to pu- 
pHtiifli'd ^^^^ 3S had deferted our Service 
withDeatk during the Siege. Among thefe Simon 
Lopes, a Portuguefe by Birth, who had 50 
Guilders per Month Pay in our Service* 
and after we were repulfed in the general 
Aflault was gone over to the Enemy, did 
lead the Van, and was, notwithftanding 
all the Interceflions of the Portuguefes^ 
hang'd on a Gibbet. Two other Europe- 
ans (whofe Names we will pafs by in li- 
lence) underwent the fame Fate ; and a- 
notherwas feverely whipp'd, and forcM 
toftandwitha Rope about his Neck for 
12 Hours under the Gallows. 
The next thing to be done was to take 
care of the Tranfportation the Porpu- 
guefesj among whom the EccleGafticks 
and Inhabitants of Columho werefent be- 
yond Sea to Mr. Laurence Pit our Gover- 
nor, who was iO difpatch them further 
to the Ifle of S. Thomcvs. About that 
time we » eceiv'd a Letter from Kaja Sin- 
ga^ V, herein he fufficiently teftify'd his 
Diitatisfadion. IValraven Thomas our 
£ook- keeper fcnt word from Montual^ 
that he had lent the Corporal Hans 'Jacob 
Lamhcrt^ I o Afardykersj and a Serjeant 
to the Pafs of Nacclegamme, with Or- 
ders to oppofe the Forces gathcr'd there- 
abouts by the Dsjfa-ves of Ouva, of the 
four and of the feven Corks; which not 
agreeing with the Sentiments of the Ge- 
neral and his Council,they order'd the faid 
Corporal to fend back the Mardykers to 
Momual^ and not to flop the PalTage of 
any of tiie Royal Forces, for fear of giv- 
ing any occafion of Offence to the Empe- 
ror. 
Notwithftanding this, we foon found Raja Singi 
the elFedf s of the DilTatisfadion of Raja /f'<^,^' 
Singa, who having cut off all means of re- 
ceiving Supplies by Land from the Sa- 
bandar, Don John de Cnfla was difpatch'd 
to the Dijfaves of Sajfragam, and thofe 
of the four and feven Corks, who told 
him, that their People were at their full 
Liberty (tho we knew to the contrary) 
to bring their Provifions to our Market, 
but that they durft not give a Vifit to the 
General, without exprefs Orders from 
Court. 
The i2d of March, the Yachts the 2 Tachtf 
Mars and Lyon came to an anchor in the come kjor: 
Road of Columho, aboard one whereof Columbo, 
was the Vice-Commodore Roothaus, who 
(upon the Receipt of a Letter from our 
Head Fador Mr. Reinier Serooskerke, inti- 
mating thatafmall Yacht laden with Pro- 
vifions upon the King of Cochin^ Ac- 
count, was gone from thence to Columbo ) 
had left the Yachts Flifmgen, Popkens- 
burg, Sea-Coney, the Haddock and the ^0- 
man, with two other V^elTels on that 
Coaft, who were fupplied with frefh Pro- 
vifions by the Inhabitants of Caylpatnam. 
The Inhabitants thereof being very defi- 
rous to renew their Commerce with our 
Company, they were then equipping two 
Frigats there. 
About the fame time notice was given cingalefes 
usjthat Cannangere Aratchie, a faithful Ser- over t» 
vant of the Company, had (to our great ^^'^ ^"'^'^^ 
Diflatisfadion) fubmitted to the King of 
Candy^ 
