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so we were told that in Portugal there was much astonishment 

 at some persons' consenting to that deed. But by an emblem 

 or design, which we shall give here, which they had executed 

 there 1 with reference to this affair (made, as it appears to me, 

 by the fathers of the Company), they approved of what he 

 did, and recorded his great Christianity and zeal for the honour 

 of God ; and the emblem was as follows. They made an 

 escutcheon, and on it they painted the viceroy and the arch- 

 bishop at a council table, and around them all the prelates of 

 the religious houses and the divines that were there present, 

 and in the midst of all a large burning brasier, and some 

 heathens with purses in their hands filled with money, 

 which they were holding out to him, and five letters, like the 

 first of the name of Dom Constantino, like these, and im- 

 mediately below them these five words : — 



C C c c c 



Gonstantinus cceli cupidine cremavit crumenas. 



The true signification of which is, setting aside the construc- 

 tion : "Constantino, with aims in heaven, rejected the 

 treasures of earth " 2 



Dec. VII., Bk. x., Chap. xiv. 



Of the war that Madune ordered to be undertaken against our 

 fortress of Columbo, and that of Gota, in which was the 

 king Peria Pandar : and of the actions that took place. 



We have many times spoken of how greatly Madune Pandar 

 desired to capture the kingdom of Cota. and seize the king 

 his brother, in order thus with greater safety to become master 

 of the whole island. Wherefore he never desisted from the 

 war, and continually sent his armies, the captain-general 



1 In Portugal. 



2 The translation is certainly free, and the Latin misstates the fact, 

 since it was the tooth that was cremated, and not the money-bags 

 {crumenas). This episode has been referred to by many writers, some 

 praising and others blaming the viceroy (c/. Gerson da Cunha, op. cit. 

 45-6). Modern writers have doubted the genuineness of the tooth 

 burnt (see Pyr. ii. 145, note). 



