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the king of Cota as had been agreed 1 , besides what was concealed 

 and secreted, and God only knows how much that was. 



The king of Cota ordered spies to be set on Madune ; and 

 learning that he had withdrawn to the mountains of Darnagale 

 with few followers, begged of the viceroy five hundred men 

 to go with his father Tribuly Pandar to attack him, and 

 capture him ; because if he compromised with him, on their 

 backs' being turned he was certain to reinforce himself and 

 cause new troubles to that island and to the state of India. 

 The viceroy replied that he approved of this, and thereupon 

 asked him for the twenty thousand parddos that were due to 

 him of the balance of the hundred thousand. And as the king 

 was poor , and for the eighty thousand that he had given had 

 even sold articles of his personal use, as we have said above, 

 he could not collect the money, nor had he any source whence 

 to obtain it, and the viceroy leaving the business in suspense 

 said that it was already late, and that it was necessary for him 

 to go and dispatch the ships that had to leave for the kingdom ; 

 and leaving Ceitavaca he went to Columbo, to settle various 

 matters of that island before he took his departure 2 . 



Dec. VI., Bk. ix., Chap, xviii. 



of the matters that engaged the viceroy's attention 



in Geilad : 



it i ' i < '■ ■ . ■ ' 



We must now leave him [D. Antao de Noronha] 



to return to the viceroy, whom we left just now in Columbo. 



There he disposed of the affairs of that island, agreeing to 

 leave a garrison of four hundred men in the city of Cota for its 

 security, and nominated as captain-major of that island and of 



1 In the headings to the lists as given in O Thesouro, &c. , the fact is 

 stated that half was for the king of Portugal and half for the king of 

 Ceylon as agreed by contract made with the viceroy. Faria y Sousa 

 (Asia Port. II. n. ix.), after recording the contract, adds sarcastically : 

 — " however the necessity of India did not allow of the observance of 

 words, or faiths, or punctualities. If the barbarian had violated them 

 to the Catholic, he had been a thousand times a barbarian. In this wise 

 I am reduced to not knowing what is a Christian or a politician when he 

 breaks them to the barbarian. Better judges may know." 



2 The Rdjdvaliya (80) says that the viceroy " having again given the 

 city to the flames returned to Kotje." Neither of these statements 

 appears to be correct. 



