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branch), whom the Viceroy Don Alonso de Norona in the 

 second year of his government brought to Goa, and from 

 thence to Portugal, where he was honoured at the court with 

 the title and the ceremonial due to a Count, and returning to 

 Goa married a Portuguese lady ; shortly afterwards he died 

 without leaving any children, and was buried in San 

 Francisco de Goa. He was, I believe, the last legitimate 

 prince of Ceylan, and with him became extinct the celestial 

 race of the Sun. 



For Raju, now tyrant of the whole empire, was a bastard ; 

 he had Drama for son, who was also illegitimate, being bom 

 of a common prostitute, and for that reason it was never 

 known who his real father was : perhaps a barber or surgeon 

 of Oeiitavaca, according to public opinion, as the Calvinists 

 relate, although that is not very certain, for evil report and 

 perfidy of all kinds so easily becomes a fixed opinion, how- 

 ever doubtful it may be. But the tyrant being a great soldier 

 was a favourite, because of his generosity and partiality to 

 the vices of his profession. He killed the Raja, his father, 

 together with his three legitimate sons : his ambition to 

 reign overruling all other natural instincts which induce 

 men, by that secret power of consanguinity, to love their 

 fathers as the authors of their being, and for the life 

 they owe them. This barbarian was "so cruel that after he 

 obtained the empire he sought only to preserve it by the 

 same tyrannical measures he had used in usurping it, so 

 that he drew down upon him the hatred of his principal 

 subjects, who killed him by poison, delivering over the 

 empire to the Portuguese. They by this time had already 

 conquered it by right of lordship, as well as by their nomi- 

 nation to the succession from the last legitimate Emperor D. 

 Juan Priapandar, also by the common right of inhabiting it 

 and wrenching it from the hands of the infidels as unjust 

 possessors, for denying the glory which they owe, as rational 

 creatures, to their God and Creator, Lord and Judge. 



Therefore it is by the common laws of justice that we 

 should conquer them and govern them, seizing all until 



