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And to return to our subject : the viceroy wished not to 

 leave there without being given the twenty thousand parddos 

 that were still due to him, and also wished for the return of 

 Tribuly Pandar, who owed him nothing, since he had not 

 fulfilled the contracts that he had made with him, to pursue 

 Madune until they had killed him or had him in their hands. 

 And seeing that Tribuly had fled, he seized the king's grand 

 chamberlain 1 ; who was all his household, and sent him on 

 board a galleon of the fleet, telling him that he would not be 

 released until he had paid him the twenty thousand parddos. 

 The grand chamberlain seeing himself in such straits sent to 

 beg money of his friends and relatives ; but could find none 

 that could lend it to him, so ordered to sell a gold belt that 

 he wore and some trinkets of his, which amounted to five 

 thousand parddos, which he sent to the viceroy with a pro- 

 missory note, in which he bound himself to pay the fifteen 

 thousand in full that year. On this the viceroy ordered him 

 to be released, and embarked, leaving the grand chamberlain's 

 promissory note with Dom Joao Anriquez for him to collect 

 the fifteen thousand parddos. And also among certain 

 things that he left him orders to carry out, that which he 

 most impressed upon him was to capture Tribuly Pandar 

 and send him to Goa. Having taken leave of all, he set sail 

 for Cochim 2 , 



1 This was Dharmapala's paternal uncle Tammita Bala Surya 

 Bandara, or, as he is called in a letter of D. Joao III.'s of 16 March 1543, 

 confirming this office to him and his descendants, " Tammatey Sam- 

 paraprimal " (? Sampakapperumal). 



2 The Rdjdvaliya (80) says that the viceroy " departed for Goa, 

 giving the post to his nephew, and leaving the captain Diyagu da Mel 

 to assist him. The Buddhist monks who were at Kofcte departed to 

 Sltavaka and the hill-country." What Simao Botelho thought of the 

 viceroy's doings may be judged from the following passage in his letter 

 to the king dated 30 January 1552 (Cartas de S. B. 39) : — " Regard- 

 ing the expedition to Ceylao and its result and the death of the king 

 I shall not enlarge, because the viceroy is doing this minutely; but it 

 appears, since the purpose was treasure and Christianity, things so 

 different the one from the other, that our Lord was not willing that 

 either of these should be done or got, except so little of one and the other 

 as that the money and jewels did not come to ninety thousand pardaos 

 (I do not mention the exact quantity because there are some things to 

 be sold, and what they will be worth I do not know, thej^ being articles 

 with precious stones), and there was no Christian made except a boy, 

 who was given by force, a son of the dead king's [?] ; and since there 

 are bound to write to your highness concerning this business all who 



