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A Defcripion of CEYLON 
Baldaiis. 
to underftand, that it had been agreed, 
not to recede in the leaft from the 
literal Senfeof the Treaty, efpecial- 
ly in what related to that Article 
concerning any City or Place taken 
with the Affiftance of his Majefty's 
Forces i whereas your Excellency had 
not as much as taken the leafi: care 
(fince the taking of Columbo) to fend 
to his Majefty his rebellious Subjefts, 
nor any of the Prefents, except two 
Pcrficm Cats, a Ship, <b'c. deliver'd by 
me to his Majefty. The not fending 
of the Rebels has been very ill re- 
lifn'd here. 
RajaSinga Our General took care to fendanioft 
u angyy obliging Anfwer to the Emperor's Let- 
Diifd/^ ter, which however was fo far from giv- 
ing any real Satisfadion ro B-a]a Singa^ 
that on the contrary he conceiv'd fuch a 
Hatred againft; the Dutch, as made him 
engage with the Portuguefcs againft them. 
For notice having been fent to our Coun- 
cil by Anthonio de Afotte, and Afanoel Fon- 
feque de Moniis, two Portuguefes, that 
they had been follicited by Ra]a Singa to 
enter into his Service, with Promifes of 
vaft Rewards, and the full Enjoyment of 
the fame Revenues they had been pofrefs''d 
of before, in their moft flourifhing E- 
ftate ^ it was order'd that none of the 
Imperial Soldiers fhould be for the fu- 
ture admitted into the City, except fuch 
as fhould be fent in the Quality of Meffen- 
gers from the King, or any of his Dijfaves, 
to the General and Council : 32 Men 
were alfo commanded to guard thePaifes 
nt3iX Cakture. Moft of the Portuguefes at 
Columbo, were fent under a Convoy of a 
whole Company to Gale \ and upon a fcru- 
tiny of the Mufter-roll, it was found 
that there were 300 Men mifling from a- 
mong the Lafcaryns of Matule, and ma- 
ny more follow'd their Footfteps foon af- 
ter. 
5 Portu- The spth of May early in the Morning, 
g j'fe Fri' four Frigates being difcover'd near the 
^Af-es fa- Shore, towards the fide of Galktjfe, we 
' • took in our Princes Flag, in order to en- 
tice them into the Road t the Commo- 
dore, who led the V^an, perhaps began to 
fufpeft the matter, and therefore fteefd 
his courfe to the North ^ but the other 
three were no fooner come within the 
reach of our Cannon, but we fent out our 
fmall VelTels to fetch their Officers afhore. 
Thefe told us, that they left the Bar of 
Goa the iid with fix Frigates, and that 
two of them being feparated from the 
reft by a moft violent Tempeft near Cou- 
lan^, were either loft^ or perhaps had 
faved themfelves in fome Port or other ; 
one of them having been feen without 
Mafts. They added, that a Portuguefe 
Caravan was come to an Anchor in the 
River of Goa. Thefe fix Frigates had a- 
board 68 Soldiers, beiides good Store of 
Provifions, Ammunition and all other 
Neceflaries, intended for the Relief of 
Columbo, in cafe the Squadron under 
Francifco de Setxa fhould mifcarry. Their 
Cargo ftood us in great ftead, confidering 
the Scarcity that was among us at that 
time. 
The 1 ft of June we took another Fri- Anotbei- 
gate and a Yacht, the Officers whereof /^c/j^^^ii^ 
being likewife brought afhore, told us, ^^^^'^^'^ 
that the City of Cochin had contributed a 
good Sum of Money towards the relief 
of Columbo. Their Letters being open'd, 
contain'd nothing material,^ except that 
they were embroil'd with the King of Co- 
chin. 
Certain Advice was brought to the 
Governor, that the Day before, as the 
before-mention'd Ships of Cochin were 
paffing along the Shore of GalkiJJe, the 
Imperial Diffaves of Aiatule and Ouva, 
had been feen to give them a Signal with 
a white Cloth, and had taken abundance 
of Pains to get aboard them, offering 
400 Larynes to the Fifhermen, if they 
would carry them aboard of one or the 
other ; and that they had got ready two 
Boats, but durft not venture thro the 
Waves. Confidering the Pains the Em- 
peror had lately taken to entice away 
fome of the beft Officers belonging to 
the Company, and divers Outrages com- 
mitted by the King's Lafcaryns in. the 
Park of the Company : Thefe together, 
I fay, feem'd to us the infallible Forerun- 
ners of the enfuing Broils. 
For it was not long before Cornelius van 
der Duyn, Deputy-Governor of Mature.^ 
fent w-ord from thence, that the King's 
Officers and Soldiers had forbid all the In- 
habitants thereabouts to furnifh the Hol- 
landers with Provifions, or to obey their 
Orders, but to retire into the King's Do- 
minions, where they fhould have full Li- 
berty to make their Excurfions into our 
Dominions, as they had done already at 
BiUigam, MaUimande, and Baigam. 
To prevent fuch like Outrages for the 
future, three Companies of 40 Men each 
were fent out of Gale, two of which 
were order'd towards Accurals, to pro- 
tect the Inhabitants againft the Inroads 
made by the King's Soldiers, in the quiet 
poffeffionof fuch Lands as were granted 
to the Company by the Emperor ; for by 
this time we began fiirewdly to fufped, 
* that 
