The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c25.107

v1.c25.107

³ "Copy of the Caull of the King of Gingier.—Jacob de Bitter, Captain, representing Admiral Pieter Willemsen Verhoeven: We promise to protect the Dutchmen who will settle in Tegenampatna, to allow them to build a town, to refuse entrance in it to the Portuguese, to whom we shall remain hostile. On the other hand, we Dutchmen promise to bring all kinds of goods, to traffic with all traders, on the condition that they will pay us four for every hundred of all the merchandise we shall bring there, excepting the rice which is used at home, for which they will not pay. Moreover we shall pay four for every hundred of the merchandise that we shall carry away from there. Those who have paid once will not pay again. We promise and take the oath to keep all these faithfully, Amen. On the 30th of November of the year 1608 in the large town of Gingier." De Jongue, III, p. 281-2.