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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART IV
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Who have endeavoured to subdue him by Wars, but they cannot yet do it: yet they have brought him to be a Tributary to them, viz.

To pay a certain rate of Elephants per annum.

The King and this Prince maintain a Friendship and Correspondence together.

And when the King lately sent an Army against the Hollanders, this Prince let them pass thro his Countrey; and went himself in Person to direct the King's People, when they took one or two Forts from them.
[The People how governed.] The People are in great subjection under him: they pay him rather greater Taxes than the Chingulays do to their King.

But he is nothing so cruel.


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