From a Portuguese atlas, 1630

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007

Views of Colombo and Pointe de Galle, 1700, in a German version of *MALLET*

Source: ebay, June 2004

An early view of the bay and the Dutch fort of Point de Galle

Source: http://cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/images/drawings/wieder_galle_2000x775.jpg
(downloaded Oct. 2005)

THE 1,841 INHABITANTS OF GALLE FORT in 1760:

395 European Company servants
123 Eurasian Company servants
112 Indigenous Company servants
6 Pensioned off Company Servants
96 Company Slaves, women and children included
66 Free Burghers (men & boys)
94 Moslems (men & boys)
16 Slaves of Moslems
97 Chetties (men & boys)
26 Slaves of Chetties
255 (ca.) Slaves of Europeans and Eurasians
515 Family members of all categories, Slaves excluded
40 Prisoners from the Galle Commandment

Source: http://www.lankalibrary.com/heritage/gall.html
(downloaded Jan. 2007)

"View of Adam's Peak and Point de Galle," by Henry Salt, 1809 (with later hand coloring)

Source: ebay, Feb. 2007

*Cinnamon Gardens near Point de Galle; a hand-colored photo by Frederick Fiebig, c.1862* (BL) [*Fiebig 1862*]

An overview of the old fort at Point de Galle, as it looks today

Source: http://img92.exs.cx/img92/7372/reexposureofgalledutchfort5um.jpg
(downloaded Oct. 2005)

"God and My Right"-- the motto engraved on one of the gates to the fort

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jungle_boy/149993665/
(downloaded Jan. 2007)

Inside the fort: the old Dutch Reformed church, which was started in 1682 and finally completed in 1755

Source: http://www.humbert-online.de/pic/srilanka_012.jpg
(downloaded Oct. 2005)

A view from the ramparts

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trentm/65930920/
(downloaded Jan. 2007)