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account Changali as vassal of Portugal for treason to his 

 king. For it was at his instigation that his fortresses and 

 Captains had been endangered; although it was publicly given 

 out that the expedition was only to recover the tribute which 

 that idolatrous chief owed to the Crown : and there were not 

 wanting some who said it was to demand payment of certain 

 moneys lent, which the Captain-Generals of Ceylan were in 

 the habit of doing. 



The people of Columbo openly condemned Constantino 

 de Sa for this expedition, imputing it to the temerity of 

 a young commander ; for they saw him splitting up the forces 

 of the Island into detachments scattered far apart, some being 

 more than eighty leagues away, and so small that they were 

 barely sufficient to defend the territory that had been 

 conquered. The outcry against him increased when they 

 saw Madune again becoming powerful, strongly fortified in 

 the Two Corlas, and sending his Captains to carry the war 

 into the Seven Corlas, and stir up rebellion in that Province. 



The General thereupon ordered the Captain Don Constan- 

 tino Barreto with a regiment of lascarins and a few Portuguese 

 to march against Madune, whilst he himself with the 

 remainder of the army, and the casados* who had spoken 

 against him, as a punishment, left for the Seven Gorlas ; for 

 this district caused him the greatest anxiety, as in it was 

 gathered the main strength of the enemy. It was a Province 

 always rife with rebellion, and only kept under by intimi- 

 dation ; for which reason its abandonment would cause the 

 greatest mischief. Such was his military foresight and care 

 that he sent relief to every part where the necessity and peril 

 of the moment demanded. 



* Casados, the married men. — The single soldier was merely called 

 soldado, to distinguish him from the casado. The casado was not 

 compelled to go to war. It appears from Pyrard's account that great 

 respect was paid to the casado. The soldiers did not like to see married 

 men shipped along with them, being apprehensive least they should 

 inadvertently, and without intending any offence, address to them some 

 indecent language, such as they use among themselves. — Pyrard's 

 Voyage, Vol. II., Part I., page 125. 



