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which is among the revenue accounts at Goa, where we saw 

 these details 1 . 



After they had taken from this poor king all that they could 

 find, the viceroy discussed with him and his father Tribuly Pan- 

 dar the business of Madune, and they agreed as follows : — That 

 the viceroy and they two should go against Madune , and that 

 they should not cease their operations against him until they 

 had him in their hands, and had utterly destroyed him, so 

 that he could give them no more trouble ; and that they should 

 give him two hundred thousand parddos for the cost of that 

 expedition, one hundred at once, and the other hundred 

 afterwards, for which an acknowledgment was given, which 

 was incharged upon the factor of the fleet Manoel Collaco, and 

 afterwards upon the factor of Cochim, and by him handed 

 over to the receiver of residues, where we went to see it, and 

 it does not state whose the debt is, only saying that they are 

 due, without mentioning the time in which he was obliged to 

 pay them, which must have been in the original, which we 

 cannot find. Furthermore the viceroy agreed with the king 

 of Cota that all the prizes that should be taken in Ceitavaca 

 should be divided equally, one half for the king of Portugal, 

 and the other for the king of Cota. 



These agreements having been made and signed, they began 

 to prepare for the expedition against Madune, the king of Cota 

 giving the viceroy then and there eighty thousand parddos 

 on account of the hundred thousand that he was under obliga- 

 tion to give him immediately ; though even to give him this 

 he had to sell jewels and other personal and household articles, 

 which he carried with him and had thus saved. Then the 

 king and his father took the field with four thousand men, 

 and the viceroy with nearly three thousand Portuguese. 

 Before they set out there arrived Dom Diogo d' Almeida, son 

 of the auditor of the exchequer, with fifty soldiers, whom the 

 viceroy welcomed gladly. 



This fidalgo, as we have related in the past chapter, left the 

 kingdom that year as captain of the ship Espadarte, of the 

 company of Diogo Lopez de Sousa ; and having bad weather 

 passed outside of the island of Sao Lourenco, and with much 

 trouble and risk made landfall at Cochim, after the 15th 

 of October ; and learning that the viceroy was in Ceilao 



1 Incredible as the above statements appear, they are fully substan- 

 tiated by Simao Botelho himself (Cartas de S. B. 39, and Inventario do 

 Thesouro do Rei de Ceyldo, printed for the first time in 1904 by Sousa 

 Viterbo). All that the Rdjdvaliya says is (80), that the viceroy " took 

 possession of much of their royal treasures." 



