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Industao are the pagodes of Ramanacor 1 opposite to Manar, 



near the shoals of Chilao There is also the pagode of 



Tanavare 2 in Ceilao, and that of Adam's Peak 3 . 



Dec. V., Bk. vi., Chap. vi. 



sjs % % 



the viceroy 4 sending a galleon with supplies 



to Ceilao 5 



Dec. V. , Bk. vii. , Chap. iv. 



And of the ambassadors that the king of Gotta sent 



to the kingdom. 



And returning to our subject, the governor 6 hastened the 

 writing of the letters for the kingdom, and dispatched the 

 ships to Cochim to take in cargo, and in them embarked Dom 

 Alvaro de Noronha, son of the viceroy Dom Garcia de Noronha. 

 There also embarked two ambassadors 7 from the king of Cotta 

 in Ceilao, who went with good credentials, and by them that 

 king sent to beg the king Dom Joao to do him the favour to 

 swear as hereditary prince a grandson of his, son of his 

 daughter 8 and of Tribuli Pandar, on account of his having 



1 See supra, p. 96, note 3 . 



2 Dondra. See supra, p. 33, and infra, p. 373, 



3 See the foregoing chapter, in which, however, curiously enough, 

 Couto does not mention any pagode on Adam's Peak. 



4 D. Garcia de Noronha. 



6 It was the custom to send from Goa to Ceylon each year (in Septem- 

 ber-November) a galleon, which conveyed supplies to the Portuguese 

 stationed at Col umbo, and brought back the tribute cinnamon and 

 other goods for the cargoes of the homeward-bound ships (c/. C. Lit. 

 Reg. iii. 236, 237). In Purchas ix. (164) will be found details of the 

 salaries and provision of the officers and men of ' ' the Galleon of the 

 Trafnck and Voyage of Ceilaon," from a "tractate" by the viceroy 

 D. Duarte de Menezes (1584). 



8 D. Estevao da Gama, second son of Vasco da Gama, 1540-2. 



7 The Rajavaliya (77) mentions only one, Sallappu Arachchi (c/. 

 supra, p. 74, note 5 ). The whole paragraph in the Rajavaliya relating 

 to the embassy is out of place. 



8 The Rajavaliya (79) records the death of this princess " from con- 

 stitutional weakness"; but when this took place is not clear (c/. infra, 

 p. 164, note 2 ). 



