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him his father and the chief men of his court 1 . The viceroy 

 took up his lodging in the factory, and immediately dispatched 

 his son Dom Fernando de Meneses with five hundred men to 

 occupy the city of Cota, in order to hold the passes to it, so 

 that no one should go out of it : the which Dom Fernando did, 

 placing a captain with a hundred men on guard over the king's 

 palace, so that there might be no disturbance of any kind; 

 these precautions scandalizing many, since it appeared as if 

 they were going to conquer a friendly king rather than one 

 that was an enemy. The viceroy after having given orders in 

 Columbo regarding various matters left for Cota with his whole 

 force, and after taking up his quarters laid hands on the chief 

 modeliares and the servants and the oldest persons of the house- 

 hold of the king, the latter being unable to come to their help, 

 and began to inquire of them regarding the treasures of the 

 ancient kings, since it was surmised that they were very great ; 

 and because he could extract nothing from them he ordered 

 several modeliares to be put to the torture, we know not by what 

 right or justice ; and in this he went to such an extreme, and 

 carried it out with such evil methods, that all being horrified 

 at the tortures that they saw some put to, they began to 

 leave, a few at a time, and during that period there went over 

 to Madune more than six hundred of the principal men. The 

 viceroy seeing that they would not reveal anything to him 

 ordered the king's palace to be searched, even invading his pri- 

 vate apartments, and carried off all his gold money, including 

 five hundred and sixty portuguezes of old gold, silver, jewels, 

 and precious stones, and the money alone amounted to a 

 hundred thousand parddos : all of which was incharged upon 

 Simao Botelho, the veador da fazenda, in a separate book, 



1 The Rdjdvatiya (79-80) says : — " When letters reached Goa that 

 king Mayadunne was checked when he .once more marched against 

 the Portuguese on the death of Bhuvaneka Bahu, and that prince 

 Dharmapala had been made king, many persons and the pidalgu 

 [fidalgo] called Don Juvan Arikku, nephew [or, son-in-law] of the 

 viceroy, and the padre Vilponsi Aponsu Perera, came from Goa, landed 

 at Colombo harbour, went to Kotte, and had an interview with king 

 Dharmapala." I cannot confirm or confute the statement as to the 

 relationship to the viceroy of D. Joao Henriques ; but regarding the 

 padre named I shall have something to say further on (see p. 172, 

 note 4 ). Valentyn (Ceylon 77) says that Dharmapala sent a message to 

 the king of Portugal as well as one to the viceroy, and he adds that " the 

 viceroy of Goa Don Louis de Tayde, and his sister's son, Don Joan,'' 

 came with a great fleet to Ceylon, &c. How the name of D. Luiz de 

 Ataide (who was viceroy in 1568- 71 and again in 1578-81) got in here, 

 I cannot imagine. 



