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know not how to describe, and confess that words and style 

 fail me therefor : in fine, all that the emperors and kings in the 

 world all combined could do in a most solemn festival, in 

 which all wished to ostentate the greatest majesty and power, 

 this barbarian by himself did. The tooth having been dis- 

 embarked was placed in the middle of the parade ground of 

 the palace, where had been erected for it a very gorgeous 

 tabernacle, to which both the king and all the grandees went 

 to offer their richest gifts, which were immediately written 

 down by officials who were deputed for that purpose. 



There it remained for two months, until it was transferred 

 to a varella 1 that had just been finished making in the place 

 where he conquered and routed the Ximido Satao 2 , who 

 rose against him and usurped the kingdom, in gratitude for 

 that great victory 3 . And to make an end with these things, as 

 they are all closely connected, I shall deal with those that 

 took place between the king of Candea and this Brama with 

 respect to the king Dom Joao of Ceilao, although they took 

 place in the coming year ; but as they fall in here, I do not 

 care to leave them until later. 



These matters, which the king Dom Joao carried out in 

 such secrecy with the Brama, both that of the marriage of that 

 maiden under the name of his daughter and that of the ape's 

 tooth, soon came to the ears of the king of Candea 4 , who 

 learning how matters stood, and of the great riches that the 

 Brama king had sent him for the tooth that he pretended to be 

 the ape's, being filled with envy of all this, as he was a near 

 relative of the king Dom Joao's and married to his sister 5 

 (though there were not wanting some who said that she was 

 his daughter 6 ), dispatched ambassadors to the Brama, who 



1 Pagoda (see Hob.- Job. s.v.). 



2 The printed edition of 1673 has temido Satao (" dreaded Satan " !), 

 while the manuscript has the still funnier error timido santao (" timid 

 hypocrite," or " timid santon " !). The conquest of this Ximi de 

 Satao (thamin of Sittang) is recorded by Couto in VII. n. v. ; but it was 

 Xemindo (Thaminhtoa) who was defeated by Thaminsoadwut, the 

 latter in his turn being defeated by Bureng-Naung, the king of whom 

 we are now reading (see Phayre's Hist, of Burma 102 et seq.). 



3 Tennent's version of the foregoing is as follows (Ceylon ii. 220) :— 

 " Here it remained two months, till the vihare (varela) which they set 

 about erecting could be constructed, and on which such expenditure 

 was lavished as to cause an insurrection in the kingdom " ! 



4 See supra, p. 234, notes 1 and 3 , and p. 242, note 4 . 



5 1 cannot verify this statement (c/. infra, p- 261, note 1 ). 

 6 The manuscript has " que nao hera filha ," which, with 



the unfilled blank, does not make sense, 



