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inherited the vices and courage of his uncle, and the same 

 hatred towards the Portuguese. The second was now elected 

 as successor to the throne of Candia. The daughter, after 

 the death of her mother, which happened about this time, 

 married her own father : so great is the bestiality and 

 lasciviousness of these infidels, who are unworthy to be 

 classed with human beings, and so great is the power the 

 devil has over them, that the very laws which are by instinct 

 kept inviolate by the beasts of the field are savagely 

 trodden under foot and ignored in their vicious lives. . 



CHAPTER XI. 



as to how the captains of ceylan were employed 

 during the avar with candia. constantino de si 

 erects two new forts at manicravare and 

 Batecalou. The Viceroy gives him charge of 

 the Royal Treasury. 



The King of Candidas actions were watched with anxiety 

 by Constantino de Sa ; for by the strict orders of His Majesty's 

 Government and of the Count-Admiral Viceroy of India, 

 on all matters relating to the war in Geylan, the Governor 

 had been made its sole arbiter, because of the knowledge and 

 the experience he had gained in all the incidents relating to 

 it : although he acted as one in authority, he always bore 

 in mind that he was still a subject. 



In spite of all this strictness the King of Candia kept 

 adding insult to injury, whilst Constantino de Sa in his 

 patience increased his reserve and dissimulation, knowing 

 how deceit increases, and that punishment alone would 

 stop it ; forasmuch that there is nothing which makes those 

 who govern respected, but by making themselves feared. 



Compelled by circumstances and the danger of the moment, 

 he summoned to a Council all the Captains and most 

 experienced soldiers of the Island, by whose advice he 



