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A concise book, with a vast compass, this work details the Dutch occupation, and career in Sri Lanka. There are 10 chapters in this book, amongst which the reader would find notices of : the Lascarins; the Burghers; the French Company; Bibilegama captured; the Vanni; Laurens Ply as governor; Hendrik van Rheede; Vimala Daham Surya; unrest in Jaffna; Cornelis Joan Simons; Narendra Simha; governor Becker’s reforms; Pielat as commissioner; Vijaya Raja Sinha; Lienderan de Saram; legal administration; cardamoms; pepper; the Catholic missionaries; the kings marriages; Matara occupied; method of conversion; withdrawal of Van Eck; Falck as governor; trouble with Thever; canals; Buddhism tolerated; Thomas Nagel; development of cinnamon planting; the Sinhalese kingdom; Jaffna occupied; and, end of the Company’s rule. This book is a reprint of the 1918 edition. The author has written a book on the Portuguese in Ceylon, in the same manner.