Dutch -sealedjiu'^ax; '«w ith ^ e pummeh of Jas; seyme^r, rrbnd
directed to the,tD«tch ad»aral ^ho Twas tbm bnsfeging ^ e Porr
■^u^u^eriSti m mjm
^eThefiportqgqefq endeavoured by «©ye^ J^eans to d i^ o iv p rt^
-aAfeane^{gi^^yrf®pre^Hted utoithe ^ D ^ t# ) that -the C^cbWP
ite^bfeaWasMeffed -theflight <rfr
I P ^loaiff^r^yof.' S p in -.«ftd .'Pwftsu^d. ..js3iie8^i^prf^»ta,^|®,
•jhqwevferi producing no >effe#i the war between‘thfe Fpntflgteie&e
and , Dutieh<; began ;to rage with/ymorb- fury fth^i j'q^era i jand ;sa
. Aumkefe- o f . ; engagements. attended« with various!, sjj£t?ess,
J^o£g,place! b e ^ k fp v i l i , ^ t t s of; Indj®,:/'
In Tgift, a Dutch fleet -under admirals Westerwnld and Koster
arrived a t ; Ceylon»: and «Sef^Htiateiit^ tserTh^.tto:uRaia^Singa,
(who prepared«.ta-Ureoeived them'.gj The P^rtyg'uese^p^eejsWiig
,tiie . imminent ?<feqger which threatened them, Rafted a <equne»l
jfef war 4 » deliberate;, whether | they i should at :onoe -evacuate ih e
•island*/or bold wife tqithe d ^ t; The latter QQ3^gfii>etog jdetef-
miped 'oh, -they ,. resolved to attack Raja $inga bgfjpr^-hfesphottlid
fei^pinatl by bis-new?allies*
Don Die§^/)dqj»AIelq, marched to Candy iWSSiit^ten.
:withqqt resistancCi the King evacnatmgj i t <ony:ithefe approach
,jand (-retiring; t^^e.fmobhtaihfe p|y©igl^^f;]®eBriivThe?JPdnt»-
^uqse, .after plundering 'Candy, ,e»camped „'tlmgq, ^ ^ m M S f r |
a t ©lannqo £. -The; King now ordered, aft th e reads po b e i broken
i&P: rhy> ’i^ irita th ^ iF o rij^ jp » ^ ■ #mmhbjc^t^;;Fi#i'bhe»|i^t(,at
„^jdlajoeeiij -and isnddenly/iarifjMingl with hasoasay jss-rrawnded the-
enemy. ; The, j£qr£ugv4i$e; now too late endeavoured to 4»©ft
^ ^ rq q tio p 'f by nnegetdatiqn;,/,: b,ot Ibe rKiqgsrefused; tp listen
yfco j§ufiy accommodation;- and taking iadvantage oC-a shower, ibf
raiq,« wljiqh,: on tbisras on &.?;ferraer .ooearion irqndeirec| ;ftsbe
Portuguese'>hrel,®ck.§ilvs^itiitehiir^iwge]^s,) he fell upon / them and
nearly/, qutiJftem all, tq tpiece$f Durdng,;tthf, qctipn he -himself
stood in a tree from whiohlhe | e/(ri/Id, qbserv-e both armies, and
issue his „orders p e n d in g . to^ile^igenciesj^v^ After the- battle., he
had all the heads ,;<|f -the ^pOEfcpgoesqi formed m4o a pyramid.
' Raja Siqga, peeing,? by the Dutch fqrces under
Wgsterwqld and Koster, lae^ajttaeked Bata^lq,^ which, capitulated
on condition -jthal p^>r fe^gueM?hhhqi:e,|j,should be,; sent to
Ijfegapatanr&$||pie native^,inb b e ^garrison being^debyered up to
th e -King, hp tensed them to| he. impaled -traitors to ,t|ig
thfhTpmibrigp; A new^treaty,- si,mildrf|tp, the fopner,q^e, was
now 'epneljaded-. between him/ and,- -the. fQptcli, a^ep', which
th e confederates sat idqwo.befqi'e Columbo.. „Thqy :.§p,on safter-
wards,, however, drew off- - thfiqi|grcegv<to the ^at^ax^c ofk Point
fte Gqlle, which' wasifthen- blockaded, by^thp. Dutch fleet. In a
gftqrt bme, this .fo^tr^s- was.taken by tstorm ; and' hefore , the
end qf -the same year 1639, ^Triucomalee wTas, also compelled
to surrender, the garrison being sent by capitulation to Qpj-
jumbo. In -the -following ■ year Nigumbp j was taken by the
Dutch, and afterwards Point de Galle which bad been retaken
by th'q Portuguese. -
The Dutch Commanders Westerwold and Koster,- having set
»u t to meet the-King’in the interior, were»surprised by a party
•of Cinglei^ and put to death. The war ;bd;wee0l‘ the -Dutch
and ‘ Portuguese stilly continued to rage with unabated violence,
and during -several /succeeding, years many ■ desperatp^battles,
both by sea and land took pjace between .them. Both parties
being at length wearied out by this lohg and indecisive contest
began to wish/i*r an interval of^repos.^ The King,of Cstndy
was too- much?exasperated a t the Portuguese to agree, to any
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