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secrecy an account of that business, and of how the king Dom 

 Joao had the real tooth of the ape, or of their Quiar 1 ; and 

 the one that Dom Constantino carried off was a false one and 

 an imitation : inasmuch as by the ingenuity of the king it 

 was made to the end that he should be left with the genuine 

 one, which he esteemed more than all the riches of the East, 

 but as the king had become a Christian at the instance of the 

 Portuguese, he had kept the tooth in his house in the greatest 

 secrecy, with all the suitableness that was possible to him. 

 The ambassadors and talupoes on hearing that were very glad, 

 and with great insistancy begged the king's chamberlain to 

 show it to them, the which he promised them under great 

 assurances, cautions, and promises that no one should learn 

 from them that secret, nor the king have knowledge of what 

 he had revealed to them, the which ceremonies and precau- 

 tions stimulated all the more the curiosity of the ambassadors 

 to importune him ; and after some days of much intreaty. 

 during which he kept on expressing fears to them, one night 

 he allowed himself to be conquered by their intreaties, and 

 took them with great caution to his house, where with great 

 preparations and feigned reverences he showed them the tooth 

 in the charola in which it was on an altar much adorned with 

 lights and perfumes, and on seeing it they prostrated them- 

 selves on the ground, and adored it many times with great 

 ceremonies and superstitious rites, in which they spent the 

 greater part of the night, and afterwards conversed with the 

 grand chamberlain regarding the tooth, begging him to send 

 it to the Brama with his daughter, in order that the pleasure 

 and festivities of the wedding might be more, and they 

 pledged their word to him that the Brama should send him 

 a million of gold, and every year a ship laden with rice and 

 provisions, as they had promised : all of which was settled in 

 great secrecy, so that only the king and his chamberlain 

 knew of it. 



As soon as the weather was fit for this maiden to embark 2 , 

 the grand chamberlain carried it out with such secrecy, that 

 neither Diogo de Mello, captain of Columbo, nor the fathers 



1 This should be Quiai, as it is spelt in V. vi. i. (below spelt Quiay). 

 Valentyn, in the list of Javanese words at the end of the last part of his 

 great work, has "kijay, een heer." It is, in fact, the Talaing kydik = 

 Buddha, lord, master. (Of. Ovington's Voyage to Suratt, &c. , 566, 576.) 

 Ralph Fitch (168) spells the word Mack, and wrongly explains it as 

 " their [the Peguans'] holy place or temple." Tennent's footnote in his 

 Ceylon ii. 217 is both inaccurate in statement and erroneous in surmise, 



2 At the close of the south-west monsoon, doubtless. 



