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received them with honour ; and when he gave them audience 

 they informed him on the part of their king that that maiden 

 whom the king Dom Joao had sent to him under the name of 

 his daughter was not so, because she was the daughter of his 

 grand chamberlain ; and that the tooth which he had sent him 

 with so much ceremony was made from the tine of a stag ; 

 that he much desired to be connected with him by marriage, 

 and that therefore he offered him to wife a daughter of his, 

 not a pretended but a real one ; and that he would likewise 

 have him know that he had the real tooth of Quiay, because 

 neither was that which Dom Constantino carried off from 

 Jafanapatao the real one, but that which he had, as he would 

 prove by documents and olas 1 , The Brama being informed 

 of the case, having turned it over in his mind, and seeing that 

 he had already sworn that maiden as queen, and had received 

 the tooth with that display, and collocated it in a varetta to 

 itself, dissembled over the business, so as not to confess that he 

 had been deceived, because it is as bad for kings to be deceived 

 as for us to deceive them : and so he replied to the ambassa- 

 dors that he highly esteemed the relationship that the king 

 of Candea wished to enter into with him, and likewise the 

 ape's tooth ; that he would do him a favour if he would send him 

 everything, and that to bring it he would give them a very 

 beautiful ship with very costly things for the king : and he 

 commanded to prepare two ships, which he ordered to be 

 laden with rice and costly stuffs, both for the king of Ceilao 

 and for the king of Candea, for each one his own ; and in that 

 of the king Dom Joao he commanded to embark all the 

 Portuguese that he had as captives there, among whom 

 was Antonio Toscano, who related these things to me many 

 times. 



These ships having reached Ceilao 2 , that which came to 

 anchor in the port of Candea 3 before she was discharged had 

 her cables cut and was run ashore, where all was lost, and the 

 ambassadors were drowned ; and it was surmised that it was 

 by order of the king Dom Joao of Ceilao, they being deadly 

 enemies 4 : and if such were the case, it must have been a plan 



1 The Kandyan monarch may have been right regarding the dalada 

 (see, however, Mahdv. 321 and 327) ; but he seems to have been a 

 curious Christian. 



2 In the early part of 1567, probably. 



3 By the " port of Candea " is, I think, to be understood some roadstead 

 near Batecalou, which was the part whence intercourse with Kandy 

 took place from outside (cf. supra, p. 127). 



4 Who are meant by " they " is not quite clear. 



