Chap.XL V. A Defcripion of G E Y L O N. 
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Baldaus, 
The-Tray- 
tors exe» 
ted. 
cei/d a Stroke with the Ax in the Neck 
and on the Breaft, had their Entrails ta- 
ken out, and the Heart laid upon the 
Mouth. 
A certain Jefuit nam'd Caldero^ a Na- 
tive of Malacca, was beheaded. This 
unfortunate Perfon being prevented by 
Sicknefs from going along with the reft 
of the Portuguefe Clergymen, had not 
been concern'd in this treacherous De- 
iign, much lefs given his Confent to it. 
Butfomeof the Tray tors having given 
notice thereof to hiraby Letters, wherein 
rhey ftiied him the Father of their Souls 
he was unwilling to betray his Country- 
men, for which he paid now with his 
Head : eleven more were hanged, and 
afterwards expofed in the open Country 
on Trees-, but the Heads of the Ringlea- 
ders were fix'd upon Poles in the Mar- 
ket-place, 
The Caftle of Jafnapatmm is of a 
Qiiadrangular Figure, and ftrongly forti- 
fied with very high and thick Walls ; 
it is bigger in Circuit than the Caftle of 
Batavia^ being the Capital City of the 
whole Kingdom. Fhilippo de Olivero^ af- 
ter having defeated the Cingalejes near A' 
chiavellij not far from the great Pagode 
(the Ruins whereof are to be feen to this 
day) took the fame from the Emperor of 
Ceylon. Hard by this Pagode is to be feen 
a moft miraculous Spring, 24 Rods in 
Circumference, cut out of an entire 
Rock, or, as the Inhabitants will have it, 
open'd by a Thunderbolt, of which more 
hereafter, when we fhall treat of the 
Illes of Jafytapatnam : we took it after it 
had been 40 Years in the pofTeflion of the 
Portuguefes. 
Jafnapatnam is divided into four Pro- 
vinces, which are very populous ; its 
whole Length is about 6 German Leagues, 
and its Breadth 3, being well inhabited 
and adorned with Villages and Churches. 
The whole Number of the Villages a- 
mounts to 1 59, of their own Churches 
34, befides tht Dutch and Portuguefc Chur- 
ches. Jafnapatnam is on the Northlide 
wafh'd by theGulph of Bcngak^ and bor- 
ders to the South of a tiiver, which 
makes it a kind of an Ifland, and exone- 
rates it felf in two different Channels 
into the Sea. 
The Province? of Jafnapatnam are 
Bclligammey Tcnmarachc^ Waddemarachc 
and 
The PortU- 
guefes con- 
quer J af- 
napatnam. 
A m'lracu- 
lomSpring. 
Bignefs of 
jafnapat- 
nam. 
Provinces 
of Jafna- 
patnam. 
