This section is arranged according to the dates of receipt as was done by the original administration. Annexes and duplicates are kept separately, but sometimes the originals and the duplicates are interchanged. It would always be advisable to refer also to the files of annexes and duplicates.

For the relations of the V.O.C. Government in Colombo with the Vanni chiefs before that date see pp. et ff. 70 and 134.

No. 167.

Vol. V 2, p. 1.

Cf. J. Aalbers, Rijckloff van Goens, Groningen 1916, p. 32.

Also called "Gelria".

No. 3403.

No. 2237.

See letter dated 7 July 1785 , in no. 2015.

Cf. van Dam II 2 p. 109, n. 1.

P. 65.

No. 3198, p. 60.

No. 3199, pp. 15 - 16.

Vol. V, 1, p. 176.

Nos. 3198, 3199.

No. 2137.

Nos. 1457, 3320, prel. no. 5125 (Galle catalogue no. 1209), no. 2151.

The Governor-General at the time was Warren Hastings.