NO. 41, — 1890.] REBELION DE CEYLATST. 



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Alboqnerque landed as Viceroy in India with stringent 

 orders from His Majesty to punish the apostate. 



Alboquerque ordered Pedro Lopez de Sosa, at that time 

 Captain in command at Malaca, to proceed to Ceylan with an 

 army of one thousand two hundred Portuguese, and the title 

 of Governor and Captain-General of the whole Island. He 

 was the first (as remains to be said) to place the young 

 Catalina, just ten years old, in possession of the kingdom 

 of Candia. 



For her brother Juan, who had been brought up and edu- 

 cated by the Franciscans in their doctrine and customs, had 

 gone over to Spain, renouncing his rights to the kingdoms of 

 Candia and Jafanapatan, and placing them at His Catholic 

 Majesty's disposal. He was ordained a priest, and lived an 

 exemplary life with an income of 8,000 ducats, which the 

 king gave him out of the ecclesiastical grants : although, 

 with the advice and counsel of Don Jeronimo cle Azevedo, 

 he many times urged Ayres de Saldana, then Viceroy of India, 

 to introduce him into the kingdom of Candia, and by his 

 means reduce the Island to our obedience. 



It was also heard said by some persons of note that Pedro 

 Lopez had orders to marry Catalina, after she was crowned, 

 to a Portuguese, and it was for this reason she was chosen, 

 and not her brother ; for by this means the reduction of 

 that .kingdom would be facilitated, and there was no 

 other smoother way towards governing the Island. Since 

 under the shadow of a native princess the rebel's power 

 would be weakened and easily destroyed, and a new 

 Zingala empire formed, which would not appear so 

 servile, and yet would not allow them such freedom ; so 

 that gradually the Portuguese prince would populate the State 

 with Mestice (half-caste) children, mixing with the natives 

 in marriage, and amalgamating with the blood would by rela- 

 tionship and family ties gradually clo away with the customs 

 and evil practices of barbarism. 



But the apostate, afraid of the numbers of Portuguese that 

 Pedro Lopez de Sosa brought with him (which was the 



