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called Dom Joao like him of Cotta 1 , to send troops to enter 

 the territories of Raju and put them to fire and sword, in order 

 thus to oblige him to hasten to their help and relieve the 

 fortress, which was in the last strait with the rigour of the siege. 

 It was easy to persuade the king of Candea to this resolution, 

 because he was a mortal enemy of Raju's: and at once 

 with all speed he dispatched his field captain-general, who 

 was called Dom Afonso 2 , with five thousand men, and with 

 him went Belchior de Sousa with thirty men, whom the 

 viceroy Dom Afonso had sent to that king, as if for his 

 bodyguard. 



These captains entered Raju's territories, and proceeded 

 putting them to fire and sword 3 , until they reached the city 



1 Of. supra, p. 133, note 3 ; infra, p. 242, note 4 . The Hist. Seraf., 

 curiously enough, does not mention the Christian name of this king. 

 After describing the unsuccessful attempts to convert Jayavlra, it 

 adds : — " We had better luck with his son King Mhestana [sic, for 

 mahdsthdna = royal highness], who succeeded him on the throne, because 

 without those numerous promises and continual changes we baptized 

 and received him into the flock of Christ. JECe continued so firm in our 

 sacred law, that on the most wicked Raju's robbing him of his crown 

 he had not the power to divert him from the faith, but the rather, 

 closely united to it, he died in the arms of our friars." (Regarding his 

 loss of the kingdom, and death see infra, p. 258.) 



2 Who this man was, I am unable to say. His baptism as a Christian 

 evidently took place during the viceroy alty of D. Affonso de Noronha 

 (1550-4), after whom he was named; and the Portuguese bodyguard 

 here mentioned probably accompanied him from Goa, whither the 

 Christian king of Kandy had doubtless sent him on a mission to the 

 said viceroy. 



3 In Primor e Honra i. vi. there is a passage that seems to refer to 

 this peri6d. The writer has been speaking of the miserable condition of 

 certain Portuguese soldiers who had deserted to Raja Sinha and been 

 compelled by him to become heathen, and continues : — " But in order 

 to show by actual example, in the case of those of whom we speak, the 

 evil state to which they will come, it must be mentioned that while 

 many of them were going about in the company of Raju there was war 

 between him and the king of Candea ; Raju as the more powerful 

 entered his territories, and pitched his arrayal near the city of Ange- 

 gama [? Ambagamuwa], metropolis of the kingdom. With the king 

 of Candea also went Portuguese by command and consent of the vice- 

 roys and governors, both because of his being a Christian as also in 

 order that Raju (who is our friend [amigo : but must be an error for 

 imigo, enemy] ) should not make himself master of the whole island by 

 capturing this kingdom of Candea which is in the heart of it. The 

 array als having come together from one side and the other came to join 

 in battle, in which there died many men, and Pvaju came off the worse, 



