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the fleet that he was leaving there Dom Joao Anriquez 1 , and 

 assigned to him ten rowing vessels, the captains of which 

 were Dom Duarte Deca, Jorge Pereira Coutinho, Diogo de 

 Miranda Anriquez , Fernao de Castanhoso , Antonio de Noronha , 

 Ruy de Brito, Nicolao de Sousa, Joao Coelho de Figueiro, and 

 Manoel Colaco as factor of the fleet. He left an order for Dom 

 Joao Anriquez that he should reside in the city of Cota, appoint- 

 ing as magistrate to administer justice Rafael Corvinel, while the 

 post of alcaide mor he intrusted to Fernao de Carvalho 2 , who had 

 to reside in the city of Columbo , it being agreed at a council of 

 all the captains that it should be walled in all round as speedily 

 as possible, artizans being at once left for this. And so as 

 soon as the viceroy embarked they took the work in hand, 

 and began to enclose it with mud- walls, of which even 

 today the greater part is standing 3 . The viceroy hurried on 

 these matters in order to embark; and it appears that he had 

 determined to take with him Tribuly Pandar 4 , father of the 

 king, of which he got wind, and taking himself off betook 

 himself to certain jungles that are a league from Cota : at 

 which the viceroy was much annoyed, but hid his chagrin, 

 and on several occasions pressed the king to become a Christian, 

 from which he excused himself, telling him that at present it 

 was not convenient for him to make a change of law, because, 

 as he had reigned only a short time, and his uncle Madune had 

 a fixed determination to take the kingdom from him, it was 



1 He was the first " captain-major of Ceylon ": D* Joao da Silveira, 

 Lopo de Brito, and Fernao Gomes de Lemos were styled only "captain 

 of Columbo." With the demolition of the fortress in 1524 this office 

 ceased to exist : now it was to be revived and enlarged. 



2 From O Thesouro do Rei de Ceyldo 40 , it appears that he was also factor. 



3 It is unfortunate that Couto does not enter into greater detail on 

 this subject (regarding which the Rdjdvaliya is silent). It is evident 

 that by " the city of Columbo " is intended so much, at least, as lay 

 within what are now the Pettah and the Fort, for it was this extent that 

 the Portuguese fortress of Columbo covered down to its rendition to the 

 Dutch in 1656. (It therefore lasted just over a century.) The 

 mud- walls, of which Couto reports the greater part as still standing 

 when he wrote [circa 1597), had to be strengthened to resist the great 

 siege of 1587-8, as we shall see. Valentyn (Ceylon 91) says that he 

 could not find in the Portuguese writers when the fortress was rebuilt : 

 he must have overlooked the above passage. 



4 The reason is not stated ; but it was doubtless to prevent him from 

 influencing his son Dharmapala. The Rdjdvaliya (80-1) attributes 

 the issuing of an order to imprison Vidiye Baiidara to his having married 

 a daughter of Mayadunne's; but according to Couto (VI. x. xii., p. 163), 

 this marriage took place a year or more later. 



