Chap.XLII. A Defcripion 0/ C E Y L O N- 
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TheQiagi 
lefes in 
vain at' 
tacl(d. 
Two Rob' 
bcYs pu- 
fliffu^. 
The PoE- 
tiiguefe 
Squadron 
gets clear 
of the 
Dutch. 
Service, was abfent from Hakman with a 
Serjeant and moft of the Soldiers, having 
left only a Guard of lo Europeans and 
15 Lafcaryns in the place, they to the 
number of loo Men attack'd them on a 
fudden, in hopes to carry the Place by 
furprize, but were notwithftanding fo 
hotly receiv'd, that they were glad to re- 
tire. 
Things began thus to grow worfe and 
worfe, without hopes of Amendment, 
becaufe we were frequently bit by 
our own Dogs, I mean the perfidious 
Cingalefes under our Jurifdidion, who 
gave conflant Intelligence of all our De- 
ligns,fo that we could not fend abroad the 
fmalleft Party but the Enemy had before- 
hand notice thereof \ whereas we could 
never difcover the leaft of their Inten- 
tions, of which we were fufficiently con- 
vinced by divers intercepted Letters. 
The King's Forces having furpriz'd a 
Serjeant named Peter John/on^ a Native 
of Dantdckj with fome Inhabitants of 
the Country, and four Soldiers Wives, 
they carried them before the Dijfave of 
the feven Corks, who toid them, that 
they had been long enough in the Dutch 
Service, and muft refolve now to be his 
Majefty's Slaves. 
The id of Juguji we received a Letter 
from Laurence Haurvoyk our Under- Fadtor 
at .Cakture, that feveral Robbers had 
been feen about Boemhoele^ who had cut 
down the Fruits of the Earth ^ that An- 
drado being fent after them with fome 
Lafcaryns, had met only with two of 
them, who refufing obftinately to con- 
fefs by whom they were fent out to cut 
down the Rice, they had cut off their 
Heads, and fet them upon Poles near the 
place where they had fpoiled the Rice. 
The I '^th of Augufl being Sunday, the 
Yacht calFd the Columho came into our 
Road, having left Tutecoryn the iith : /he 
brought Letters from the Commodore to 
the General, intimating chat the Enemy's 
Squadron compos'd of 15 Frigats had 
efcap'd his hands the 7tf? of July^ taking 
the opportunity of the Night, and the 
advantage of the Flats betwixt the Ifles ^ 
that they were purfued by our Ships as 
far as Pambanaar, which could not come 
up with them by reafon of the Sands. 
He further told him, that fufpedting the 
Teuver or Governor of the Country to 
have been corrupted with Mony, and to 
have given thera a free Paflage betwixt 
Aianaar and Jafnapatnam (which he 
commands by either laying in or re- 
moving cert:a\ Stones from the en- 
trance thereet ) he had been oblig'd to ' 
Vol IM, 
return to Tutecoryn. '^V/"^ 
We had at the fame time advice of the y^f^ 
arrival of our Ships, the Amjlcrdani. the 
Avenhorn, Saphir^ Haddock, iVorkum, Pe- 
lican^ Patience, and Black Bull, upon the 
Coalt of Coromandel : But it wasnofmall 
Mortification unto us, that the Sapbir 
(contrary to the General of Ceylon's Or- 
ders ) had left the Prifoners and Portu- 
guefe Soldiers (who according to the 
Articles of Surrender were to have been 
carried to Batavia) afhore near Ncga- 
patnam, and that flie had not touch'd in Ovcrf-^ht^ 
the Southern Harbours, where there was f/J^^-^/y^- 
a confiderable Cargo of Clothes and o- 
ther Commodities ready, which could 
not be difpos'd of otherwife:^ and by the 
firfl: overfight the Enemy had been re- 
inforcM with 80 brave Soldiers contrary 
to the intention of the Agreement. 
We had at the fame time Letters from 
the Fadtor Adrian van Ncwland, dated in 
the Danifli Fort calFd Trangttebare^ whcve- 
by we underftood that the before-men- 
tioned Portuguefe Frigats were pafs'd 
through the Straits ( by the affiHance of 
the Governor) to Jafnapatnam, from 
whence Anthony Amir al de Mencfts (after- 
wards kill'd by one of our Cannon-balls 
near Alanaar ) had fent his Forces in 
Boats to Nsgapatnam, in order to ga- 
ther a Body (at the reqoefl of Ra\a 
Singa) in thofe parts, which, as the cafe 
then flood, might have prov d very dan- 
gerous to us, had not God through his 
Mercy prevented their Deligns. 
During all thefe Troubles, our Gene- 
ral kept a watchful Eye upon the Enemy's 
Motions, and order'd Mr. John van der 
Laan with 300 Men to fcour the Coun- 
try. Thefe Differences continued for a 
confiderable time, viz.. to the year idJj^, 
and tho fome glimpfes of Peace appeared 
at certain Intervals, yet is it certain that 
Raja Singa is not reconciPd to us to this 
day,and perhaps never will whilft helives„ 
We have hitherto treated of Columvo j 
v^}t now will pafs the River at Aiuniual^ 
and take our courfe higher up to Ne- 
gumbo. But before we come- tiiiiher, I opiniencci:^ 
can't forbear to fay a word or two con- ^^-^ 
cerning the general Opinion of the In--^}!"'^^'\ ''^ 
dtans, VIZ.. 1 hat ColuTnuo was imgregna- 
ble. Hence it was that the Portuguefcs 
boafted in all places, that the King of 
Portugal and Viceroy of Goa would ne- 
ver fuffer fo ftrong a Fortrefs to fall into 
the hands of the Hereticks., efpecially 
after v/e were repulfed in the firll general 
AiTault. I happen'd to be then at Ma- 
eajfarj where the FGrtuguefe Father and 
fome Minionaries lately come from Chin4 
i i i i i uied 
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