No. 60. — 1908.] couto : history of ceylon. 



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Deo. VI., Bk. ix., Chap. xix. 



of what happened in CeMao. 



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The viceroy having left Ceilao, Dom Joao Anriquez tried 

 to capture Tribuly Pandar, the king's father, as the viceroy 

 had left him orders to do ; which becoming known to the king, 

 he took a hand in the matter, and begged him not to interfere 

 with his father, but to dissemble with him for the present, 

 as it was necessary for them once more to unite against Madune, 

 who was already in Ceitavaca reorganized, and with a large 

 force. The king's request seemed to Dom Joao good, and 

 he gave him a safeguard for his father to come to Cota, that 

 they might settle about the war that had to be carried on 

 against Madune The king wrote this to his father, and sent 

 to summon him. Tribuly was in the Seven Corlas, where 

 there reigned a first cousin of his 1 , with whom he had agreed 

 to marry the king his son to a sister of this cousin's, so that 

 thus they might all be allied against Madune. The captain 

 Dom J oao Anriquez learning of this was greatly pleased at it , 

 and agreed with Tribuly Pandar that he should set out with 

 the prince of the Corlas with all the army against Madune, 

 and that he with the king his son and his grand chamberlain 

 should go by way of Calane, that thus he would not be able 

 to escape them. This agreement having been made, when 

 they had one and the other begun to prepare for the expedition, 

 Dom Joao Anriquez fell ill of a severe sickness , of which he died 

 on the first of May [1552]. He was succeeded by Diogo de Mello 

 Coutinho, either by an order that existed, or by election, we 

 cannot well ascertain which, who carried on his obligations, 

 waging against Madune all the war that he could, not taking 

 into consideration the league that had been formed against 

 him with Tribuly Pandar and the prince of the Corlas ; rather 



were there, I think I am excused from doing so, and through them 

 your highness can learn if I served you therein well or ill ; only one 

 thing I shall say, which no one shall drive out of my head, only that 

 there is treasure there, although it may not be much, and some was 

 hidden." From Simao Botelho's Tombo do Estado da India (240) it 

 appears that the viceroy also raised the amount of the tribute cinnamon, 

 although the factor had already increased it from 300 to 450 bahars. 

 In spite of all this, Couto (or perhaps his " corrector " Adeodate da 

 Trinidade) in VII. I. vi. expatiates on the virtues of this rapacious extor- 

 tioner, and says that he lived poor ! 



1 This is apparently Edirimanna Surya, of whom we shall hear again 

 in VII. in. v. (see p. 175, note 



