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towards the Portuguese, Don Jan.* He was a son of Vinna 

 Lamantia, who, having been the Councillor of the Empire, had 

 [aspired to] become Emperor. Craftily enticed to court by 

 the previous Emperor, he was buried in the ground alive up 

 to the waist, and killed by wooden discs cast at his head. This 

 act the young prince Vinna Ladarma Soria bravely sought 

 to avenge by invoking assistance of the Portuguese against 

 the murderer of his father, having been advanced by them 

 to the rank of General, In the meantime, the Portuguese 

 having made themselves masters of Candy, appointed a Prince 

 begotten of the royal blood (who, having been by their means 

 converted to the Romish faith, had been named Don 

 Philippo at his baptism) king, as the result of their 

 successful conquest. 



The General Don Jan, or Vinna Ladarma Soria, how- 

 ever, took this so ill that Don Philippo was poisoned at his 

 instigation, and he acquired an implacable hatred against the 

 Portuguese. He cunningly ingratiated himself with the 

 courtiers and the people to such an extent that he soon was 

 crowned Emperor. 



Immediately all friendship with the Portuguese was 

 declared at an end, and they were commanded on pain 

 of death to evacuate all conquests they had made on the 

 Emperor's territory. A large army having then been 

 collected, the forces of the former Emperor Raya Singa 

 A dasJcijns'f were attacked and dispersed, and the tyrant him- 

 self died of anger and grief. 



Not long after, one Janiere Wandaer,% who had been the 

 Secretary of the late Raya Singa, proclaimed himself king. 

 This man having combined with the Portuguese (who 

 willingly fished in troubled waters), and with their subjects, 

 viz., the kings of Jaffanapatnam, Gota, Pannia, Batacalo, 

 and others, accompanied by a very great army of 140,000 



* Don John Vimala Dharmma Suryya I. — B., Hon. Sec. 

 f Raja Sinha I., 1581-92 A.D. — B., Hon. Sec. 



% Manamperuma Mohottiya. styled Jaya Suryya Bandara. — B., Hon. See. 



