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the cause of making this drug so valuable. By making it 

 scarce at first it became more valuable owing to the taxes 

 levied on its exports by our Indian Board of Trade. It now 

 greatly rose in value by these taxes. 



The tax on one thousand two hundred bares of cinnamon 

 sold in Golumbo at forty xarafins was a third more at Goa. It 

 had amounted to more than forty-eight thousand — a consider- 

 able increase to the revenues, which at that time were so 

 diminished, scarcely amounting to 55,000 altogether. For the 

 tributes paid by the villages for the exportation of arecanut 

 did not exceed 21,000 ; that from the Vidana of Bolategama 

 17,000 ; 8,000 from the taxes on the trade of Golumbo, Gale, 

 Negumbo, Ghilao, and Putalao. The elephants, including 

 the seven which the Vania of Putalao paid as tribute, and 

 two from the King of Gandia, — which altogether came to 

 twenty, — were sold, good and bad, for 200 xarafins ; these had 

 increased to 4,000. The maralas and court fines which the 

 ministers, who were appointed to superintend these affiairs, 

 collected every year amounted to near 3,000 xarafins ; and 

 the revenues of the pearl fisheries, so profitable in ancient 

 times, now brought next to nothing for want of money, and 

 because of the pirates. Such were the royal revenues of 

 Gey lan. 



At this time died the Conde de Redondo, Viceroy of India, 

 an illustrious man of great nobleness and disinterestedness, 

 whose qualities far surpassed his riches. He had saved nothing 

 in the posts he had occupied ; so that even the cost of his 

 funeral had to be defrayed by the King — a great example to 

 all Ministers of State, and a glorious one to descendants of 

 this Knight, worthy of a better fortune than that which he 

 enjoyed in his government, for which perhaps the times 

 were more to blame than his zeal, since he left nothing 

 undone which he ought to have done. He was considered a 

 Governor more just than wise. 



He was succeeded by Hernando de Alboquerque in the year 

 [1]622, when Constantino de Sa had governed Geylan for 

 two and a half years. 



