No. 60. — 1908.] cotjto : history of ceylots t . 



195 



the place where they were the pots with the food on the fire. 

 Our captains, who were full of the desire to encounter him, 

 as soon as they saw the camp, thinking that the king would 

 wait for them, advanced to attack him in form of battle ; and 

 on reaching that place they found all that they had for dining, 

 and the rice still hot, which our people appreciated much. 



And as the sun was at its height, they lay down there and 

 rested from the fatigue of the march ; and taking counsel as 

 to what they should do, they resolved that they would fortify 

 themselves very strongly there and remain, and would send 

 word to the viceroy of all that had occurred, and that what he 

 should determine should be done, because there they were 

 safe, and in the villages that were near were cows and other 

 things with which they could sustain themselves until the 

 viceroy sent them supplies. And thus they did, dispatching 

 the message forthwith in haste , which as soon as the viceroy 

 received, he immediately sent by all the sailors of the armada 

 much rice, munitions, and other things, and wrote them to 

 remain there until they got his reply, which they did. 



That king, seeing his kingdom lost and himself pursued 

 by our people so far that they had driven him out of his 

 territories, thought it the wisest course to send and beg peace 

 of the viceroy, and offer him what he asked for, before losing 

 everything, and he therefore at once dispatched his ambassa- 

 dors, whom the viceroy heard ; and having come to terms, 

 they concluded peace with the following conditions and 

 articles : — -That the king should remain in his kingdom as 

 before, and should after his manner swear vassalage to the 

 king of Portugal, with certain tribute of which we can find no 

 record; and that he should deliver up to him at once all the 

 treasure that he took from Tribuli Pandar, and his daughter- 

 in-law the wife of the king of Cota 1 ; and that in pledge of 

 fulfilling this he should cede the hereditary prince. The terms 

 having been agreed to and signed, he at once ceded the prince, 

 whom the viceroy sent to the fleet safely guarded. Whilst 

 this was in treaty, which was more than a fortnight, our 

 captains who had gone in pursuit of the king suffered such 

 huDger and want, through the rice that was sent to them being 

 finished, and the villages depopulated from fear, that it was 

 necessary for the captains to disperse the soldiers by bands 

 to go to the villages to seek some things to eat ; and both from 

 hunger and fatigue the greater part of them fell sick ; and those 

 that remained in the city did not escape these troubles, nor 

 those of the company of the viceroy, who in this emergency 

 arranged as best he could, and ordered all the invalids to be 



2 



1 See svqtra, p. 176. 



