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C U T 0. 

 DECADE VIII. (Summary.) 

 1564-1571 a.d. 



Portuguese Governors of India. — D. Antao de Noronha, 

 viceroy, September 1564 to September 1568 ; D. Luis de 

 Ataide, viceroy, September 1568 to September 1571. 



Sinhalese Rulers in Ceylon. — Dharmapala alias Dom Joao 

 Perea Pandar, 1551-97 (Kotte and Columbo) ; Mayadunne, 



1534-81(?), (Sitavaka) ; , alias Dom Joao, 155 ?-6 ? 



(Kandy). 



Tamil King in Jaffna. — Sangili. 



Portuguese Captains- Major of Ceylon. — Pedro de Ataide 

 Inferno, 1564-5; Diogo de Mello, 1565-8; [D. Fernando de 

 Monroy, 1568-70 ? ] ; Diogo de Mello Coutinho, 1570-2. 



The principal events recorded in this summary are the 

 great (and final) siege of Cotta by Mayadunne's army under 

 Raja Sin ha in 1564-5, its relief, and subsequent abandon- 

 ment by the Portuguese, Dharmapala and his " court " 

 removing to Columbo, where the puppet king was fated to live 

 for the next thirty-two years. The only other important 

 matters chronicled by Couto are the two embassies from the 

 king of Pegu (in 1565 and 1566) to Dharmapala, the first to 

 obtain in marriage a fictitious daughter of the latter's, and 

 the second to purchase from this " Christian " king the 

 genuine (?) tooth-relic. The pompous receptions accorded 

 to these two in Pegu are narrated with much circumstance on 

 the authority of an eye-witness. 



Deo. VIII.. Chap. iii. 



In which the great siege of Cotta is continued. 



The tyrant Raju did not rest from the idea of making an 

 end of Cotta, or of Columbo : for whichever of them he 

 captured, the other would soon be given up to him, and he 



