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whom he wished every good. Of this the prince heard 

 rumours, or received information, from someone in his father's 

 house. And desiring to escape from his anger, he took with 

 him the friars, and betook himself to a mountain in the king- 

 dom of Huna 1 , and with a large force that followed him waged 

 war against his father from there 2 . 



Of all these things the fathers informed the governor in 

 those letters that they sent to him, begging him to send and 

 help that prince against his father, who wished to deprive him 

 of the kingdom and give it to another, because he desired to 

 become a Christian. This the governor highly approved of, 

 and gave orders to Dom Jorge de Crasto, that when he had 

 done with the affairs of Ceitavaca he was to proceed to the 

 kingdom of Candea, and chastise that king for the treachery 

 that he had shown towards Antonio Moniz Barreto. 



This fleet set out at the beginning of January of this year 

 1550, upon which with God's favour we enter ; and of the 

 captains and chief persons that took part in this expedition 

 we know the names of none ; but of their fleet we shall give 

 an account further on 



Dec. VI., Bk. viil, Chap. vi. 



Of the dissimulation with which the king of Candea sent to ask 

 Dom Jorge de Crasto for fathers that he might become a 

 Christian: and of how he sent him two, and with them the 

 French captain : and of what happened to them on the journey. 



Dom Jorge de Crasto having left Cochim, as we have related 

 above in the third chapter of this eighth book, arrived at 

 Columbo at the end of the same month of January [1550], and 

 having disembarked his troops commenced to march to Cota. 

 Madune, who with his whole force was attacking that city, on 

 receiving the news that our fleet had arrived at Col umbo with 

 a large body of men to help his brother, raised his camp and 

 retired to Ceitavaca, leaving the tranqueiras z on the roads 

 garrisoned with many troops to guard the passes against our 



1 Read " Huva," i.e., Uva. This is the first occurrence of the name. 



2 The Rdjdvaliya version of this family quarrel is very different, it 

 being there (82) attributed to a mesalliance formed by Jayavfra after 

 the death of his queen. Valentyn {Ceylon 78) has a rather fuller version, 

 which supports Couto in his statement that the king wished to sup- 

 plant Karalliyedde Band ara by a son of the second marriage. 



3 Regarding these fortresses see next chapter. 



