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temple in Jaffna, of the tooth relic ; the subsequent offer (in 

 1561) by the king of Pegu of a large sum for its redemption ; 

 the refusal (after much debate) of this offer, and the destruc- 

 tion of the relic by command of the viceroy. 



Dec. VII., Bk. i., Chap. vii. 



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Almost at the same time 1 there also anchored at the 



bar of Goa the ship Espadarte of the company of the viceroy 

 Dom Pedro Mascarenhas, which had gone to Ormuz to winter, 

 as we have said. And because Fernao Gomez de Sousa, who 

 came by it as captain, carried the captaincy of Cochim, the 

 viceroy at once dispatched him to enter on it ; and he did the 

 same to Afonso Pereira de Lacerda, who was there as captain, 

 to go from there to serve in the captaincy of Columbo in 

 Ceilao ; and also dispatched Dom Duarte 2 to go and enter 

 on the captaincy of Maluco 3 , who went on board the ship 

 Conceigao, the captain of which was Dom Jorge Deca, who 

 had been dispatched for these voyages 



Dec. VII., Bk. n., Chap. iv. 



Of the events that happened in Ceilad : and of the stratagems that 

 Madune made use of in order to set Tribuli Pandar a,t enmity 

 with the Portuguese : and of how afterwards he agreed with 

 them to destroy him, as they did. 



Tribuli Pandar having escaped from the prison in which Dom 

 Duarte kept him (as has already being related in the Sixth 

 Decade in the twelfth chapter of the tenth book) went and 



1 Apparently in March or April 1555. 



2 See supra, p. 165, note 4 . 



3 He had been appointed to this a year before. He had no sooner 

 entered on his office than he began to show what manner of man he was 

 (" obstinate, headstrong, and of a violent temper, and blinded by his 

 cupidity," is Couto's description of him). His outrageous proceedings 

 culminated in his being seized by the Portuguese in the Moluccas and 

 sent a prisoner to Goa, whence he was sent to Portugal to justify his con 

 duct to the king, which he managed to do by inculpating another man. 



