under the Dutch. 
at certain very low prices. A certain proportion of elephants’ 
teeth, areka nut, and betel leaf, together with a share of the 
precious stones found in their' country, formed part of the 
tribute imposed on the natives. The number of elephants to 
be delivered up was fifty in the two seasons; these the Dutch 
transported to the opposite coast of the continent, and sold 
to the native princes there at very high prices, as the ele- 
phants of Ceylon are accounted superior to all others. The 
pearl fisheries on the west and north-west shores, where the 
pearl-banks are situated, formed another acquisition to the 
Dutch by this treaty. Several persons from the Malabar coast, 
and other parts of the continent, had established cotton manu- 
factories in the northern towns of the island, particularly at 
Jaffnapatam : all these were now given up to the Dutch. 
In return for all these valuable acquisitions, tlie Dutch ac- 
knowledged the King of Candy to be the Emperor of Cey- 
lon, with a long string of other sounding titles, which could 
only serve by their mockery to aggravate his mortificatioii ; and 
under these magnificent appellations they engaged, as his dutiful 
subjects, to pay him a tribute, and to seiid ambassadors yearly 
to his court. The most valuable condition granted to him, 
and indeed that for which he had consented to the hard teniis 
of this treaty, was a stipulation on the part of the Dutch to 
supply his people with sait, free of expense, and in such a 
quantity as to equal their consumption. The tribute to be 
paid him was to consist of a certain part of the produce, or 
its value, of the ceded tracts along the coast ; but this article 
was soon infringed, and indeed scarcely one stipulation of the 
treaty was fulfilled with good fai^h. 
It is evident, that by this treaty the Dutch obtained a mo- 
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