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" Monumental Remains of the 
Dutch East India Company in 
the Presidency of Madras :" 
By Alexander Rea, 
Arclucological Sur'/ey of India : (New Imperial 
Series, vol, 25.) 
The following is a very interesting woik to us 
in Ceylon. In chapters i. and ii. the writer gives 
a history of the origin and decline of the trade 
of the Company in the East. It is stated that in 
1672, Philip JJaldores, a Dutch Missionary from 
Ceyion \isited Masulipatnani. The reference is 
clearly to Philip Baldaeus. The year referred to 
is the date of the publication, at Anisl^erdani, 
of his work on Ceylon and the Malabar coast, 
and the correct date would therefore have been 
earlier. Tlie references from this work are loosely 
translated, the writer evidently not having the 
original work in Dutch before him, but a trans- 
lation. Chapter iii. treats of the 18t!i century. 
The origin of tlie numerous Portuguese names 
found among the Sinhalese is incidentally dis- 
cussed and it is stated that Palk's Strait "com- 
memorates the name of a Dutch Governor." The 
reference is perhaps to Governor Valck. 
Chapter iv. treats of the most interesting part 
of the work, the monumental remains, especially 
~the tombstones, of which many sketches, with 
coats of arms, appear. The translations of some 
are fa\ilty. Plate ii. contains the epitapth of 
Johannes Kruyf Prcdikant who died 23rd April, 
1664, at Negapatnam. This is not translated. 
Baldaeus, v/hose friend he was, refers to him in 
his work at pa^es 118 and 155 giving a letter, 
dated 13th October, 1662, written by Kruyf 
about the massacre of tL'.e Rev. Hambroeck at 
Formosa. At p. 15.5 Baldaeus states that Kruytf 
died in the island of Tajovan but the fact remains 
that his tomb is in Negapatnam. 
Elizabeth de Pape is ^aid, on her tomb, to have 
been the first Dutch lady buried in Megapatnam, 
evidently tin daughter of Rev. Nathaniel de 
Pape referred to by Baldaeus at page 155. 
Some of the tombstones are interesting to the 
Dutch descendants in Ceylon. Abraham Dor- 
niieux, whose descendants made alliances with 
many of the leading families during the Dutch 
period was married according to jilate VI to 
Margai'cta Maartensz, the eldest daughter of Jan 
Maartensz van Suchtelen and his wife (iertruida 
Pietersz. The van Suchtelen family seems, at 
this period, to have adojited the surname Maar- 
ten.sz. Capt. Pieter Huybertsz of Rotterdam 
(plate XXI) lies buried at Pulicat. Plate XXV 
refers to one Sara Lindeborn, daui;hter of Hercules 
Lindeborn " ('a|)tain of the Burghers in Colombo," 
The epitaph in plate XXIX is that of Abraham 
Mendis "free merchant" born in the city Getc- 
cotta. Plate XXXVII refers to Petronella'jacoba 
Leembrnggen of Colombo the wife of Nicolaas 
Tdd.ima, chief of Pulicat. She was the dau,i,diter 
of Henricus Leembrncrgen, the chief of the cinna- 
mon department in Ceylon. At Sadras there lie 
buried (plate XLHI) Barent Clebout " Chief 
Canlain and Major of the Ceylon military forces" 
and Ktynicr Jacot)sz de \'os, his wife, Catlierina 
Maria Davidsz, and children, Keynicr .lacobsz, 
was the son of Heynicr de \'os Dissiive of Matara, 
who aflerwariN in UiO t was .Vilmiral of the Return 
Fleet under who-<e llig the K-v. Prancois Valen- 
tyn (the gieat historian of the Dutch East ladies) 
performed his first voyage " home." There is also 
the epitaph of Esther Classina (plate LIV) wife 
of Jlr. Jacob Pieter de Neys chief of Sadras, 
At Tuticoreen there lie Luricd Fraucina Lydia 
Gifl'ening, the wife of F. C. van Spall (plate 
LIX ) and Pieter Hollebeck, who was born in Puli- 
cat (Plate LV). The above are a few of the tomb- 
stones which I have selected as being of the 
greatest interest to those in Ceylon. Plate XII 
contains the following : — 
"In the year 1777 and on the orders of the 
honourable and ruling governor Reynier van 
Vlissingen this pagoda was rebuilt." 
It is a pity that all the epitaphs are not trans- 
lated and tliat the references, in such a work, 
should be to translations and not to tlie original 
Dutch sources. The coats of arms are not dis- 
cussed from a genealogical and heraldic point of 
view although there is much scope for such a 
treatment of them. The writer says by way of 
quotation that at Masulipatnani even " the grave 
stone of an obscure schippcv or sea captain, 
probably not of degree to bear coat armour 
has an ettigy of the deceased, with a three cor- 
nered hat and long coat familiar in old illustra- 
tions." There is no sketch of this tombstone 
given. It is probably because the schipper was 
not of degree to bear coat armour that he had 
to rest satisfied with his etfigy, three cornered 
hat and lona coat, unless the writer considers 
that these constituted his coat of arms. 
Part III trea.ts of Indo-Dutch Coinage and 
plate LXIII contains sketches of 45 coins. 
V. 
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Mr. Horatio J ohn J^uckling : 
AUTHOR OF "CEYLON: BY AN OFFICER,. 
LATE OF THS CEYLON RIFLES." 
Croydon, June 29. 
When, in 1876, there was published in London, 
in two volumes, a work entitled "Ceylon: A 
General Description of the Island, Historical, 
Physical, Statistical. Containing the most recent 
information. By an Oificer, late of the Ceylon 
Ritles," there was much speculation regarding the 
identity of the author, which was concealed 
under the initials "U.S." at the end of 
the preface. Many were the guesses ; but none, 
I believe, was right. In 1893, however, I sent 
a note to the Monthli/ Literary Bcgister, stating 
that in a list of works on Ceylo'i appended to 
"Palms and Pearls," by Alan Walters (Londo^^ 
1892), there was the foUowini; : "Suckling, 
Ca|jt. H. 'Ceylon Ancient and Modern,' Lond., 
1876." I pointed out that this evidently referred 
to tlie work by " an olHcer" &c. ; and asked if the 
identification were coirect. No reply to my query 
appeared ; but a little later I sent another 
note to the M.L. R. regarding a little book 
by "H.S. " entitled "Anti-Darwin," issued in 
18S6 and again in 1S87. Since then I have often 
desired an opiiortunity ot meeting the writer ; 
and this opportunity I have had toiiay, when 
I called on Mr. Suckling at his resi<lence. I li.ad 
expected to llnd him rather advance 1 in years; 
but was surprised to liiid him still in the piime 
of life, Ihoui^h it is o\er forty years since he left 
Ceylon. [He is not a "CapJain," by the way: 
his brother Horace was Captain in tiio ilOHi Perth- 
siiire in Ceylon in 1S37 ; and he himself was an 
ensign in that regiment in Ceylon in 1844, though 
