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took up his residence in the village of Balande 1 (after he had 

 committed the ravages of which we have spoken). Madune, 

 as he was crafty, and as all those dissensions had been cut 

 short midway from the conclusion he desired, at once dispatched 

 messengers to Tribuli Pandar, by whom he sent to persuade him 

 to avenge himself of the affronts that the Portuguese had put 

 upon him, offering him to this end all the help he might need, in 

 men and money : which Tribuli Pandar accepted of him, and 

 he sent him six hundred Chingalas with their modeliares 2 ; and 

 with the troops that he collected in addition he began to wage 

 a very bitter war on our people, and destroyed the villages of 

 Paneture, Caleture, Macu, Berberi, Gale, and Beligao 3 , and 

 wrecked all our temples that the friars of St. Francis had in all 

 these places, having made in them many Christians of great 

 and exemplary life, some of whom on this occasion received 

 a glorious martyrdom at the hands of this barbarian, who 

 spared nothing ; and many of the Christians he took captive, 

 ill-treated, and even put to the torture 4 . 



At this juncture there arrived 5 Afonso Pereira de Lacerda 

 (whom we left above on his departure from Cochim) to succeed 

 to that captaincy ; and after taking posession of it, learning 

 of the great ravages that Tribuli Pandar had committed, 

 he determined to make on him all the war that he could, 

 for which purpose he made his preparations. Madune, who 

 never lost an occasion, as soon as he saw Tribuli Pandar 

 at full enmity with the "Portuguese, dispatched ambassadors 

 to Afonso Pereira de Lacerda, ordering them to wait on him 

 and offer him all that he might need against Tribuli Pandar : 

 which Afonso Pereira de Lacerda accepted of him with thanks, 

 a compact being made between them that each on his side 

 should make war on Tribuli Pandar, and that they should 

 not relax their efforts until they had totally destroyed him ; 

 because as long as he was alive he was sure to cause trouble to 

 that island 8 . This compact was made with the condition that 

 the customs dues of the country and ports should be collected 



1 An error for " Palande." (The edition of 1782 has " Bandale.") 



2 The Rdjdvaliya says nothing of this alliance, but (81) ascribes Maya- 

 dunne's enmity to Vidiye to the latter's ill-treatment of his second wife, 

 daughter of the former. 



3 Gf. supra, p. 124. 



4 Cf. supra, p. 161. It is probable that it was in this general 

 massacre that Fernao Rodriguez lost his life at Berberim (Beruvala), as 

 recorded on his wife's tombstone, now in the Colombo Museum (see M. 

 Lit. Reg. i. 14). 



5 In April 1555. 



6 The Rdjdvaliya is silent regarding this compact. 



