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brother, because with the other he would have little trouble 1 . 

 Whilst he was harbouring these designs, there happened to 

 go 2 this past August [1536] seven pardos of Malavares at the 

 time that Nuno Freire d' Andrade, alcaide mor and factor of that 

 port 3 , was in Cota with the king, having in his company seven 

 or eight Portuguese, of whom the king was very fond, because 

 he was a great friend of all 4 . The Moors of the pardos being 

 arrogant sent to request the king to send them forthwith 

 those Portuguese. The king, in a taking at this, said " Yes "; 

 and giving an account of the affair to Nuno Freire d' Andrade, 

 told him that he wished to send some captains, which they 

 call modeliares, to attack the Moors and chastise them for that 

 impertinence. Nuno Freire begged of him as a favour that 

 expedition, because it also concerned him : he granted it to 

 him, giving him Samlupur arache 5 with six hundred men. 

 Nuno Freire, with these few Portuguese that he had, set out 

 in the daybreak watch, and at dawn arrived before Columbo : 

 taking the Malavares on land unawares, and attacking them, 

 he made a great slaughter, and of those that were able to 

 escape, some threw themselves into the sea and got into the 

 ships, while others betook themselves into the interior, and 

 went to stay at Ceitavaca. Those in the sea collected in three 

 of the ships, and went off, leaving the other four in the posses- 

 sion of our people with all their contents. 



1 The Rdjdvaliya (77) tells us that " Mayadunne having taken counsel 

 with Rayigam Baiidara raised disturbances in the territory which be- 

 longed to Bhuvaneka Bahu, paying no heed to the latter being their 

 elder [brother]," but gives no reason for their action. (After the para- 

 graph ending with the words I have quoted, as far as page 82 of the 

 Rdjdvaliya there are omissions and transpositions of events from their 

 proper chronological order. The events of the years 1536-7, as here 

 recorded by Couto and Barros, are entirely passed over by the Sinhalese 

 chronicle. ) 



2 The words " to Columbo" (which Lavanha- inserts in taking over 

 this sentence from Couto — see p. 77) appear to have been omitted 

 here by an oversight. 



3 I cannot find when he was appointed to these offices. Since the 

 demolition of the fortress at Columbo in 1524 (see supra, p. 55), the 

 safeguarding of Portuguese interests in Ceylon had devolved upon 

 the factor. Nuno Freire seems to have been succeeded as factor 

 shortly after this by Manuel, de Queiros and Pero Vaz Travassos (see 

 G. Lit. Reg. hi. 221, 227, 228, and infra, V. v. viiL, pp. 105, note and 

 107, note 



4 Gf. Rdjdv. 79. 



5 This is, without doubt, the Sallappu Arachchi of the Rdjdvaliya ( 77), 

 who in 1540 went with the embassy to Portugal (see infra, p. 1 18, note 7 ). 



