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captured, with the spoil that there was of artillery, munitions, 

 and captives ; and he himself with the rest of the troops 

 crossed over to the island of Ceilam, which will be a 

 transit of twenty-four leagues, all shoal, where the fishery 

 is carried on. 



Having arrived at the port of Columbo, he found the 

 king with our factor and Portuguese in his fortress, which 

 they call Cota, besieged by Madune Pandar, the king's 

 brother, who was expecting Pate Marcar, and all in great 

 excitement when they saw our sails, thinking them to be 

 his ; but having been certified of the truth, they at once 

 abandoned the siege that they had laid, and retired to a 

 mountain range, where Madune fortified himself, fearing 

 that the Portuguese would go to seek him 1 . The king 

 received our people with great pleasure, when he under- 

 stood that they had come in his aid, which was soon seen 

 in the welcome that he showed to all ; and in the reception 

 that he gave to Martim Afonso. The days that he had 

 him there he banqueted him in a new^way according to his 

 usage, which was that the table was served by women all 

 crook-backed at the loins, in order that they, thus stooping 

 lower, might appear more humble and reverent in token of 

 courtesy 2 ; and thus far does the ambition of a man go, 

 who honors himself by others' ills. Martim Afonso offered 

 his armada to the king, and gave him an account of the 

 destruction of Pate Marcar, and said that for no other 

 purpose had he left Cochij but to relieve him of that 

 trouble in which the siege had placed him. The king, to 

 show the satisfaction that he felt at that action, which 

 Martim Afonso had carried out in order to aid him, gave 

 him stuffs and jewels, and to all the captains, and com- 

 manded to give him twenty thousand 3 cruzados in loan, as 

 a help to pay the wages of the soldiers whom he had 

 brought , and with many expressions of his great obligation. 

 Martim Afonso took leave of him, and set out for Cochij, 

 where he arrived, having put such a glorious end to that 

 enterprise. 



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1 According to the Rajavaliya (78), it was after his withdrawal from 

 K6tte in 1539 (see infra, p. 105) that Mayadunne retired to Deraniya- 

 gala (see Bell's Rep. on Keg. Dist. 60). 



2 Another of Lavanha's fictions. 



! Since Couto (supra, p. 95) says that he saw the receipt for the 

 money his figure must be accepted as correct. 



