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eight leagues from Cota 1 , with the intention of making all the 

 war that he could on the Portuguese. 



The king his son when he had news of his flight, and of the 

 ravages that he was committing, was very sorry, and sent to 

 beg him not to go any further with that business, nor to 

 remember the wrong they had done him ; but to cast his 

 eyes upon Madune his enemy, who was the cause of all those 

 troubles ; and that they should all unite for his hurt, because 

 otherwise that kingdom would be lost ; and to the same purport 

 he spoke to the captain, and begged him that past events 

 might be forgotten and present ones considered, and that they 

 should all arm against Madune, who was powerful, and incited 

 by these dissensions ; and that he knew for certain that unless 

 something was done in this direction very quickly all that 

 island would be lost and would remain in the power of the 

 hostile king ; and that it was the king of Portugal that would 

 lose most in this, since he was suzerain of that kingdom of Cota, 

 and the commerce of that cinnamon was of great importance 

 to him. 



Dom Duarte Deca having considered all these things made 

 a compact with the king against Madune, bringing into the 

 league Tribuly Pandar , who was to go from the town of Pelande, 

 where he was, with his troops against Ceitavaca ; and that the 

 king should send the grand chamberlain with all his army 

 and fifty Portuguese that he would give him. This compact 

 the captain swore upon a missal to observe, and the king 

 thereupon gave him a thousand cruzados towards the expenses 

 of the fifty soldiers, and began to arrange matters for the 

 expedition, the grand chamberlain putting in the field nearly 

 three thousand men ; and when he expected the fifty Portu- 

 guese that Dom Duarte Deca was to send him, he failed him 

 with all of them, sending word to him that the soldiers did not 

 care to serve without pay, and that he must send him more 

 money for this. The king, as he had been plundered and 

 was penniless, had nothing to send him ; but the grand 

 chamberlain had a golden girdle that was worth five hundred 

 cruzados, and this he sent him, that he might pay the fifty 

 soldiers. Dom Duarte received the girdle, and responded by 

 sending him twenty soldiers, and as captain of them Joao 

 Coelho 2 . The king was very indignant at Dom Duarte Dega's 

 thus failing to do as he had sworn ; but he did not cease 



1 It is rather less in a direct line. 



2 Doubtless Joao Coelho de Figueiro, who was captain of one 

 of the ships left at Columbo by the viceroy in 1551 (see supra, 

 p. 154). 



