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He is your God, your Lord, and your Father. Instead of 

 conveying his majesty respectfully, it is not right on your 

 part to show him such indignity as you are doing by this 

 dishonourable treatment." Ekneligoda Mohottala, retorting 

 in a tone of great harshness, said, " We have not come 

 here to hearken to what you may say," and set about having 

 the king tied with kirindi creepers. I then snatched off 

 the shawl I had on my shoulders and asked him to bind up 

 the king in it, and beheld the vexation and shame to which 

 the king was basely subjected with inexpressible regret. 

 Being unable to endure it any longer, I hit upon com- 

 municating the truth to Mr. D'Oyly, but was unable 

 to put my hands into the pocket and take out a piece of 

 paper and pencil, owing to the trouble I had about using 

 my hands freely with the burden on them of the queen's 

 body. I therefore got Yatipahuwe Arachchi to take out my 

 paper and pencil, and afterwards easing my hands a little 

 asked ^him to stoop down, and having placed my paper on 

 his back wrote as follows : — 



" The king (Kandyan) has fallen into our hands. Ek- 

 neligoda Mohottala has bound the king and is carrying him 

 along, almost dragging him, and subjecting him to great 

 torment and contempt. Come you, therefore, at once with a 

 number of palanquins. As the king and the queens are 

 almost bare of any clothing, bring them also the wherewithal 

 to be clad." 



Having thus written I immediately despatched Yatipahuwe 

 Kankanama with the letter. Before the lapse of a Sinhalese 

 jpeya Mr. D'Oyly sent Colonels Hardy and Hooke, a 

 number of mounted officers, fifty orderlies, a hundred English 

 cavalry, and six palanquins. In the meantime the Sabara- 

 gamuwa Kandyans dragged him along (as the king expressed an 

 unwillingness to walk) and laid him prostrate on the side of a 

 field. Then the British force and the two Colonels came to 

 the place where we were located and whipped away and 

 dismissed the offending Kandyans for ill-treating the king. 

 The two Colonels then dismounted from their horses, took 



