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immediately freighted a foist, and collected fifty soldiers from 

 his ship, and set off in search of him, and found him in Cota 

 already in the field. 



Everything being ready for the expedition, the viceroy began 

 to march in very good order, the van being led by his son Dom 

 Fernando de Meneses, with all the young fidalgos, who quickly 

 attached themselves to him 1 . Madune as soon as he had 

 news of the arrival of the viceroy fortified his tranqueiras 2 and 

 garrisoned them with many men and munitions, while he 

 himself remained in the open with three thousand picked men 

 to go wherever needed. Our people arrived at the first tran- 

 queira, attacking it on all sides ; and although they met with 

 very great resistance they gained an entrance, many of the 

 enemy being killed ; and passing on, they captured the other 

 two tranqueiras, into which, though very well defended, our 

 people gained an entrance with very great valour. Going on 

 to the city of Ceitavaca, the vanguard had some encounters 

 with Madune, in which they totally routed him, and he with a 

 hundred men went fleeing to certain very strong mountains, 

 called Darnagale 3 . The viceroy entered the city of Ceitavaca 

 without resistance 4 , and took up his quarters in Madune's 

 palace, and the king of Cota near the pagode, and he at once 

 ordered guards to be placed at the entrances to the city, which 

 was then sacked, both by our people and by those of the king 

 of Cota, and many prizes were found in it. The viceroy 

 ordered the whole of the royal palace to be dug up, to see if 

 he should find the treasures, which he did not, and he did the 

 same with the great pagode that was there, in which were 

 found many idols of gold and silver, large and small, candle- 

 sticks, basins, belts, and other things, all of gold for the 

 service of the pagode, and some pieces of jewelry set with 

 stones, all of which was incharged upon the veador da fazenda 

 Simao Botelho : all these pieces are entered without valuation, 

 and for this reason we do not estimate what they were worth 5 . 

 All this the viceroy collected together, without giving half to 



1 See Rdjdv. 80. 



2 Those described in VI. vm. vii. (pp. 136-8). They appear to have 

 been reconstructed. 



3 Deraniyagala (see Rajdv. 80). Valentyn {Ceylon 78) says that 

 Mayadunne soon left this mountain fortress for " the village of Balatga 

 Palla." 



4 The Rdjdvaliya speaks of fighting taking place after the entry into 

 Sitavaka. 



5 The lists are printed in Thesouro do Rei de Ceyldo 24-8. As Couto 

 says, there are no valuations entered. 



