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the region of Galitota, and there the greater part of the men who had 

 escaped from that defeat once more joined him. The tyrant D. Joao, 

 as soon as he saw that expedition lost, in which he had had great 

 confidence, determined to unite his forces and prosecute anew the war 

 in that part ; which he was not able to do, because his people were so 

 cowed by those successes, and so disgusted with that war, that they 

 did not wish to come, upon which the tyrant practised great cruelties 

 towards them, ordering many to be beheaded, and sent and summoned 

 the King of Huva to come, and went in person through his territories, 

 collecting men until he had formed a respectable army, with which he 

 once more dispatched that King with the order to avoid our f orces, 

 and to hinder the designs of D. Jeronymo, which were to oblige the 

 natives of the Corlas to submit to the obedience in which they were 

 before, in order the more easily with that power to undertake the 

 conquest of the Kingdom of Candea, and bring the war to his very 

 doors, so as thus to pen him in in such a fashioli that either he 

 would abandon his territories, or he would so persecute him as to kill 

 him, or get him into his hands*; which the tyrant understood well, 

 and strove all he could to prevent. And for this purpose he had 

 secret understandings with the Lascarins of our army, which was on 

 the frontiers of Dinavaca, and by force of bribes made them go over 

 to him, whereby those districts underwent a change. 



As soon as our troops saw that the Lascarins had gone over to the 

 enemy, they retired to the forts of Corvite and Batugedere, where 

 they remained shut in, as they thought that every one was against 

 them. At this time the General was on the frontiers of Candea 

 occupied with the conquest which he wished to make of that kingdom, 

 whereby the enemy had an opportunity of regaining courage, and 

 committed several outrages in our territories, and entered them as far 

 as in front of the stockades at Malvana. D. Jeronymo having been 

 advised of this provided the stockade of Manicravare, in which he was 7 

 with three companies of soldiers, the captains of which were Thome 

 Coelho, who was commander of all, Joao Serrao da Cunha, and Diogo 

 de Araujo, and with provisions and munitions for many days.f And 

 he with a company of soldiers and eight hundred Lascarins betook 

 himself to the city of Seitavaca on account of its being in the middle 

 of the whole kingdom, and nearer to the frontier of Dinavaca, where 

 the enemy were in action ; against whom he dispatched Simao Pinhao 

 with another company of soldiers and eight hundred Lascarins, who 



* In chapter I. this place is called Adegalitota, and is described as being 

 on " a river that divides the Seven Corlas from the Kingdom of Cota and 

 Ceitavaca ": hence I imagine that Degalatiriya, in Kanduaha Pattu. on the 

 Gurugoda-oya, is meant ; as I cannot find any place on the Maha-oya with 

 a name resembling this. Further on, it will be seen, we have yet another 

 version of the name, viz., Balitota. — D. W. F. 



f Cf. Bell's Report on the Kegalla District, I. c.—D. W. F. 



