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of the month of November, without taking any notice of the 

 many requests made to him by Manoel de Crasto, on behalf of 

 Diogo de Crasto, whose the galleon was. When the month had 

 passed he re-embarked, and came to Cochim on the 13th of 

 December, 



Dec. VI., Bk. ix., Chap. xvi. 



Of the war that Madune again made on the king of Cota : and 

 of how this king was killed by accident : ...... and of 



how the viceroy Dom Afonso de Noronha left for Geilao. 



We have above, in the seventh chapter of the eighth book, 

 related how Madune, king of Ceitavaca in Ceilao, after seeing 

 himself routed by Dom Jorge de Crasto, was reconciled to his 

 brother the king of Cota by force of necessity ; but as the 

 hatred that he bore towards him was deadly, he dissembled 

 as long as the summer 1 lasted. And as soon as the winter 

 began, having assembled his armies, he marched against his 

 brother in order to destroy him once for all 2 (it being the 

 season in which he could receive no help from India). The 

 king of Cota, as soon as he received advice of this, having 

 collected his troops, sent his son-in-law Tribuly Pandar 3 , and 

 with him Gaspar d'Azevedo, factor and alcaide mor, and all 

 the Portuguese, who would be nearly one hundred, in order to 

 meet Madune, who had already entered his kingdom. Tribuly 

 Pandar went in search of Madune, who was going along com- 

 mitting great ravages, and had some encounters with him, 

 in which he killed some of his men , and forced him to retire to 

 the other side of the Calane river, where he encamped his army, 

 Tribuly Pandar with his remaining on this side. 



The king of Cota learning that his father 4 was there left 

 Cota and went to the army to see it ; and as ill-luck would have 

 it, while the Portuguese were in a very large verandah eating, 



1 That is, the hot season, September 1550 to April 1551. 



2 The Rdjdvaliya (79) erroneously says that it was " after the lapse of 

 many years " that " Mayadunne once more disturbed the peace of the 

 districts which belonged to Kotte." This statement is due to the mis- 

 placement of events of which I have spoken. 



8 This is the first occasion on which we hear of this man's taking an 

 active part in state affairs. The Rdjdvaliya does not mention him in 

 connection with these events. 



4 There is an obvious error here : for " his father " we must read 

 either " the father of his grandson," or " his son-in-law." 



