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preparing for the prosecution of the enterprise, and dispatched 

 the grand chamberlain with orders to go and see the prince of 

 the Corlas 1 in order to get him to join the league. The grand 

 chamberlain having set out arrived at the village of Madabe 2 , 

 where he had an interview with that prince, and arranged 

 with him that he was to assist him against Madune from that- 

 side, and left him four hundred men to add to his forces. This 

 done, the grand chamberlain with the Portuguese invaded 

 the territories of Madune at one point, the prince of the Corlas 

 at another, and Tribuly Pandar from Pelande at another. 

 At the part where the grand chamberlain entered there came 

 out to meet him Madune's captain-general, with whom our 

 people had several encounters, in which they routed him. 

 Dom Duarte Deca, whether it were that Madune, learning 

 of this confederation, sent secretly to bribe him, in order 

 that he might not aid the king of Cota^ or lest he should, 

 from cupidity of what he hoped to get from him, offer 

 himself to him, or whatever it was, they had communications 

 with one another, which were not so secret that Tribuly 

 Pandar did not get to know them, and at once informed his 

 son thereof 3 . 



The king seeing such bad faith, as he was a great friend 

 of the Portuguese, fearing some treachery, sent to recall all 

 with the grand chamberlain. Tribuly seeing this injustice 

 of the captain's, and how on top of what he swore he 

 corresponded with Madune, wished however to be quits 

 with him and pay him back in the same coin, and 

 so they entered into an agreement, which concluded as fol- 

 lows : — That Tribuly Pandar should marry a daughter of 

 Madune's, a widow with one daughter, and that the latter 

 should marrjr his second son, the king's brother : and to this 

 they gave their assents, which were at once published. When 

 the king heard of it he was very vexed, because he knew from 

 the malice of Madune that all these agreements were in order 

 to cajole his father Tribuly, so as to arrive at depriving him 

 of the kingdom, which was what he aimed at. The old queen, 

 the grandmother of the king and of Madune (who was a very 

 serious lady of great prudence), seeing the king of Cota 

 abandoned even by his own father, took with her the grand 

 chamberlain, and went to the village of Reigao, where Tribuly 

 was ; and having an interview with him, she made him a 

 speech much to her credit regarding this business, which had 



1 See supra, p. 157, note 1 . 



2 Perhaps Madampe is meant. 



3 The Rdjdvaliya has nothing of all the foregoing. 



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