Cannon. Salutes were fired from this cannon to welcome the visitors of the king of Kandy. His symbols are found on the barrel: a sun, a half moon, and the Sinhalese lion. The Dutch seized the splendid cannon as booty during a military campaign in 1765. They presented it to Stadholder-Prince William v for his cabinet of rarities in The Hague.

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