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Mood io his idols, and without putting a stop to his "wicked- 

 ness. 



The Calvinists speak of him in their writings as a great 

 prince only because of his undying hatred to the Portuguese, 

 who were so justly angered at this that they never more could 

 trust their word, although they did not openly show their 

 resentment; for they are a people, these Calvinists, who 

 think more about their personal welfare than about their 

 honour, and as they worked so hard to obtain a footing in the 

 Island, never letting an opportunity slip, they did all they 

 could to cement the hatred of the Zingalas against the 

 Portuguese, and to urge them to take the offensive against us. 



There was a prophecy amongst them that one of their Jog ue 

 (as they call them) foretold to a Portuguese soldier at the 

 time when Andre Furtado de Mendoca sacked Jafanapatan 

 in November, 1591, which happened in this way. The soldier 

 who was out hunting came across a Jogne who was living 

 the life of a recluse in a cave. Knowing Portuguese he 

 called him and said that he need not be too elated, because 

 Geylan was all in the hands of the Portuguese ; for in a 

 few years another people whiter than they would drive 

 them out of the Island. And this saying appeared somewhat 

 strange, considering that six months before the English, for 

 the first time, had arrived in Malaca, and it was impossible 

 that the Jogue could have heard of it from human lips. 

 The Hollanders made use of this incident and turned to 

 their account the superstitious belief of the Zingalas, warmly 

 pressing their claim ; when the renegade Don John died 

 without leaving sons. When he saw himself in the last 

 gasps of death he married his wife Catalina to his brother 

 Enarar Bander •* his Chang asar, and father of the one who 

 now reigns : this incestuous custom is the invariable practice 

 amongst the idolators of Malabar. 



Catalina, from this second marriage, had two sons and a 

 daughter : the eldest was called the Prince of Uva. He 



° Senarat, 1604-31 A.D.— B., Hon. Sec. 



