NO. 41. — 1890.] RBBELION DB CEYLAN. 



The General, with the same care and forethought he took 

 in erecting the Fortress, knowing its importance and the 

 anger it would cause the King of Candia, garrisoned it 

 with eighty Portuguese and five hundred lascarins, with the 

 necessary boats and some cannon that Heaven had provided 

 at the place from a Danish vessel which had gone down 

 on that coast, and which he got up from the bottom of 

 the sea by the blacks, who are great divers. This was a 

 great blow to the King of Candia ; for not only did we take 

 his lands without legitimate cause, but also profaned the 

 holiest and most venerable place these infidels possessed, 

 making that a refuge and stronghold to the Christians which 

 was hitherto a temple and odious abode of their idols. This 

 -Chang asar felt most keenly, for he was a priest by profession 

 before he came to the throne (about which we shall say 

 somewhat presently), and he remained always in that way 

 inclined, his soul being more full of superstition than affairs 

 of State.* 



At one time the kingdom of Triquilimale had its own 

 princes, and the last legitimate one was baptized (after 

 being exiled from his country) at Goa in the year 1552, his 

 name having been changed to Don Alonso; and it is pre- 

 sumed that he died there without being reinstated. Being 

 without heirs it is very probable that he might have 

 bequeathed the right of succession to the Crown of Portugal ; 

 for that was the usual thing with all princes banished from 

 the Island. 



The King of Candia cunningly concealed this insult to him 

 under a fair exterior, without showing openly any sign of 

 anger, but nevertheless was secretly bent on revenge. By this 

 time his two sons, princes of Kandy (one by a former marriage) 

 married the princesses, daughters of the blind King of Jafana- 

 2xttan i who had managed to escape and get to Candia before 

 the Captain Philip de Oliveira, the Governor of the Province, 



* Chang asar = ? Sanghaya, ' ; Buddhist priesthood." Senerat, King' of 

 Kandy at this time, had formerly been a Buddhist monk. — B., Hon* See. 



