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worthy knight, with sixty Portuguese, who were glad to go on 

 that business on account of the high pay that they had promised 

 them ; and they proceeded to join the natives of those 

 corlas, and began to make war on Tribuli Pandar from above, 

 while E-aju, son of Madune (of whose services they also 

 availed themselves), did the same from below 1 ; and thus they 

 harried that tyrant, who seeing his cause lost sought to save 

 his person, which he did one night, taking his mother-in-law 

 and his wife, Madune' s daughter, with whatever treasures he 

 could ; and by unfrequented roads made his way to Jafana- 

 patao to beg help of that king 2 , so as to return once more 

 with a larger force : and he received him humanely. And in 

 discussing his business afterwards, and giving him an account 

 of his experiences, in the course thereof he represented to him 

 the obligation binding upon all the kings of that island, to 

 expel from it the Portuguese, making it appear to him so easy, 

 that he persuaded him to give him help against them, and to 

 urge the same upon all the kings his friends and relatives. 

 And for the greater certainty of this they met in a pagode, in 

 order there to swear that league with the ceremonies customary 

 amongst them. But as the thing that God most abhors is 

 false and tyrannic men, it pleased him to speedily chastise 

 this Tribuli Pandar, when he was most intoxicated with the 

 revengefulness of his hate : and it occurred in this manner. 



These princes being before their idols in order to take their 

 oaths with great festivities and rejoicings, there happened to 

 fall from a soldier's firelock powder-flask a little gunpowder, 

 and another that stood by out of mischief set fire to it, which 

 took place close to both those princes. And as Tribuli 

 Pandar was fearful, and alarmed at everything (which is the 

 weight that the wicked always carry on their heart, as a penalty 

 of their wickedness), as soon as he saw the blaze of the powder, 

 thinking that it was treachery, he drew his sword on the king ; 

 and amongst all there ensued a great strife, in which Tribuli 

 Pandar was killed, there remaining, as a result of this affair, 

 in the power of that king the old queen, the grandson, his 

 daughter-in-law, and his treasures 3 : and thus ended all his 



1 The Rdjdvaliya (84-5), while recording a previous engagement 

 between the Portuguese-cwm-Kotte Sinhalese plus Vidiye's troops 

 and the forces of Mayadunne at Puvakella ferry, of which Couto says 

 nothing, is silent regarding the confederacy here described against 

 Vldiye. 



2 This was Sahgili, who massacred Xavier's converts in 1544. 



3 Of these treasures we shall hear again (see pp. 195, 196). As regards 

 Vidiye Raja's widow, see infra, p. 396, note 4 , p. 398, note 6 . 



