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They told him, that his brother Machine sent to beg mercy 

 of him, and that he fully confessed that he had committed 

 many faults, for which he had already been well chastised, 

 and had repented of them ; that he besought him earnestly 

 to be reconciled to him, and that he was ready to give him all 

 the satisfaction necessary. The king, who was a man of very 

 good heart and nature (a rare thing in this Chingala nation 1 ), 

 touched with the miseries of his brother, and believing that 

 he would never more attempt against him his evil designs, 

 said to Dom Jorge de Crasto that he wished for peace with his 

 brother, if it appeared good to him. Dom Jorge de Crasto 

 answered that in this matter he might do what he thought 

 well, and what would be best for himself and for the quiet of 

 the kingdom. Upon this the king dispatched the ambassa- 

 dors, by whom he sent word to his brother telling him to come 

 to Ceitavaca, that there they might be reconciled and make 

 peace, sending him a surety on his own account, and another 

 from Dom Jorge de Crasto. Madune at once went, accom- 

 panied by some modeliares of high rank ; and on arriving at 

 Ceitavaca his brother received him very kindly, embracing 

 him with much affection and good- will (there being nothing of 

 this in Madune), and in the presence of Dom Jorge de Crasto 

 they were reconciled, and made peace with the following 

 conditions : — 



That never more should Madune make war on his brother, 

 and that he should deliver up to him all the territories that he 

 had taken from him. And that he should at once pay to Dom 

 Jorge de Crasto one hundred thousand pagodes for the expenses 

 of that fleet, since he was the cause of the war. And that for 

 the expedition to Candea he should supply all the servants and 

 provisions necessary for payment. And that the king of Cota 

 should be obliged to give him three thousand men to accom- 

 pany him on it. 



Having made these contracts, both the kings concluded 

 peace according to their mode, continuing there in great friend- 

 ship 2 . Dom Jorge de Crasto began to get ready to proceed to 

 Candea, as he had been ordered ; and if that king should have 

 become a Christian, he was to consider the expedition well 

 undertaken, and to help him against his subjects if they should 

 attempt any disturbance, and also reconcile him to his son ; 

 and if not, he was to chastise him for his past faults. And he 



1 Compare Couto's sweeping condemnation of the Sinhalese in V. I. v e 

 (p. 66), and his description of Bhuvaneka Bahu's character in V. V. viii. 

 (p. 106). 



2 All the preceding, as well as what follows, is entirely passed over 

 by the Rdjuvaliya. 



