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behave in the most extraordinary manner towards the king 

 of Cota and his followers, torturing the Sinhalese in order to 

 discover hidden treasure, and extorting large sums of money. 

 Another expedition against Mayadunne followed, when Sita- 

 vaka was again entered and this time looted more thoroughly 

 than before. A design of the viceroy's to seize Dharmapala's 

 father Vidiye Ba dara was frustrated by the flight of the 

 latter ; but in 1552 he was treacherously captured by the 

 captain of Columbo, and imprisoned. Succeeding in escaping 

 (in 1553), he wreaked his vengeance on the Christians along the 

 coast. A temporary peace was thereupon patched up. One 

 of the most important results of the viceroy's visit in 1551 was 

 the walling- in and fortification of Columbo on a much larger 

 scale than in 1518—24, and the appointment of a captain- 

 general of Ceylon. 



Dec. VI., Bk. iv., Chap. vii. 



Of the things that happened at this time in Geilad : and of how 

 the governor Dom Joad de Castro sent Antonio Moniz 

 Barreto with a fleet to succour the king of Candea ; 



In the fourth chapter of the second book of the Fifth Decade 

 we gave a detailed account of the great wars that broke out in 

 Ceilao, between the king of Ceitavaca, Madune Pandar, and 

 Banoegabao Pandar, king of Cota, his brother, on account of 

 the former's wishing to deprive the latter of his kingdom ; 

 and how to rid himself of him the king of Cota married his 

 daughter to Tribuly Pandar, on account of having no son to 

 succeed to his throne. Of this marriage was born Dramabolla 

 Bao 1 Bandar, who it was that the king Dom Joao proclaimed 

 in Lisbon as prince and heir of the kingdom of Cota, dis- 

 patching the ambassadors who went for that purpose 2 , in 

 whose company he sent some friars of St. Francis 3 , whose 



1 Such a name as Dharmapala Bahu is, of course, an impossible 

 monstrosity, which Tennent did not realize (see his Ceylon ii. 15). 



2 See supra, p. 119. 



3 The first Jesuits (Xavier and his two companions) had left Portugal 

 for India on 7 April 1541, reaching Goa on 6 May 1542. On 10 May 

 1546, Xavier, writing from Amboina to the brethren of the Company in 

 Portugal, says :— " With the Christians of the islands [sic] of Ceilan, 

 which is near Cape Comorin, remain five friars of the order of St. 

 Francis with other two clerics " (see Miss, dos Jes. 56). 



