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will be related in the Ninth and Tenth Decades 1 ). This Raju 

 went with a large army against Tribuli Pandar in the direction 

 of Caleture 2 . Afonso Pereira de Lacerda sent Ruy Diaz 

 Pereira with two hundred men and Antonio de Espindola with 

 one hundred to attack each on his side the city of Palanda, 

 where Tribuli Pandar was, because Raju was to go from another 

 side, so that thus he could not escape them. Having all 

 arrived there and encamped their armies, our people attacked 

 the city with great determination ; and although Tribuli 

 Pandar defended himself very bravely, an entrance was 

 nevertheless effected, many inside being killed ; and 

 Tribuli Pandar, seeing himself defeated, managed to escape, 

 and fled to Tanavare 3 , and our people entered his houses, and 

 captured his wife, who was the daughter of Madune, and whom 

 he had only recently married ; and carried off all his household 

 and personal property, and thereupon returned to Columbo 

 and Raju to Ceitavaca. Tribuli Pandar not thinking himself 

 safe in Tanavare went to the Seven Corlas, whither Madune 

 afterwards followed him and proceeded to lay siege to him 

 very leisurely, as will be seen further on. 



Dec. VII., Bk. hi., Chap. v. 



Of the events that took place this year in Geilad : and of the war 

 that was prosecuted against Tribuli Pandar : and of how he 

 fled to Jafanapatao, where he was killed : and of the war thai 

 Madune again made on the king of Gota. 



In the past winter 4 we left Tribuli Pandar a refugee in the 

 Seven Corlas after being defeated ; and finding himself so 

 persecuted there, he betook himself to the prince of Urungure 



1 These were in 1579-80 and 1587-8 respectively. The second we 

 shall find described in full detail in the Tenth Decade (p. 274ff.); but the 

 Ninth Decade having been stolen, and Couto's summary of it unfinished, 

 almost all that we know about the first is gained from a reference here 

 and there in the Tenth Decade (see infra, p, 257). 



2 The Rdjdvaliya (82-3) recounts the incidents of this campaign in 

 much greater detail than Couto, but ignores any Portuguese participa- 

 tion (see also Val. Ceylon 79-80). 



3 Dondra. From the Rdjdvaliya it would seem, however, that he did 

 not actually go to Dondra. 



4 The " past winter " should mean May-August 1555 ; but it will be 

 noticed that in VII. II. iv. Couto gives no dates, nor does he in this 

 chapter : so that it is not easy to fix the year in which the events he 

 describes took place. 



