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accepted, consenting to the building of the fortress where 

 he wished. Lopo Soarez, although in his reply he showed 

 that he was offended with the king for the little truth in which 

 he had acted towards him and the treachery which he (the 

 king) had committed, both as regards the men whom he had 

 ordered to be seized, as well as in what he had done over the 

 agreement of peace, concluded his reply thus : That he was' 

 content to return to the peace in which they were before ; 

 nevertheless, for the insult that he had offered to the royal 

 banner of the king of Portugal his master in permitting the 

 Moors and the natives to come against him with an armed force, 

 in which affair several Portuguese were killed and wounded, 

 he (the king) would have to compensate this injury by sub- 

 mitting to the title of vassal of the king Dom Manuel his 

 master, whose insignia were those on the banner of his king, 

 which represented his person : who when he was insulted, or 

 anyone despised his peace, his vassals would sacrifice their 

 lives until they had put his enemy under its yoke. The king's 

 governor, having left with this message, returned and went 

 many times, until at last he agreed with Lopo Soarez that the 

 king was willing to become a vassal of the king Dom Manuel's 

 with a yearly tribute of three hundred bahdres of cinnamon, 

 which in our weight are one thousand two hundred quintals, and 

 besides twelve rings of rubies and sapphires of those that were 

 dug from the gem-pits of Ceilam, and six elephants for the 

 service of the factory at Cochij 1 , all to be paid to the captain 

 of the fortress who should be there, or to whomever the gov- 

 ernor of India should send. And that the king Dom Manuel 

 should be obliged to protect and defend him (the king) from 

 his enemies as his vassal ; with other conditions besides 

 which are set forth in the agreement of that treaty, of which 

 Lopo Soarez had one copy and the king the other, written on 

 leaves of beaten gold (according to their usage), and ours on 

 parchment 2 . This agreement having been made, the king sent 

 to excuse himself to Lopo Soarez for not coming to see him, 

 on account of being indisposed, and for matters of his religion 

 of Bramme 3 to which he belonged; because, as regards the 



1 Cf. p. 73. Castanheda gives the promised tribute as ten elephants, 

 four hundred bahares of cinnamon, and twenty rings. Correa would 

 have us believe that any additions to the ordinary tribute were paid for 

 by the governor. 



2 Barros does not profess to have seen this treaty, no copy of which 

 now exists. 



3 The 1777 edition has " Brammane." Of course Barros is in error : 

 the king (Dharma Parakrama Bahu IX.) was a Buddhist. 



