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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. XX. 



Dec. IX., Chap. xiii. 



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r Having left Goa 1 , the galliots could not double the 



point of Gale, and put in to Ceilao, where they wintered 2 , 



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And in like manner he [the viceroy] provided the fortresses 

 of Canara with some captains and soldiers, and that of Col umbo 

 in Ceilao with two ships, in which went Francisco Gomez 

 Leytao 3 , field-captain 4 , and Jeronimo Monteiro 5 ; and with 

 this the winter set in. 



He ***** * 



Supplement to Dec. IX. 



The foregoing are the only references to Ceylon in Couto's 

 unfinished summary of his Ninth Decade, and, unfortunately, 

 it is impossible to obtain from other sources details of the 

 events that occurred in the island during the years 1573-81 6 . 



In X. ix. v. infra (p. 303) Couto speaks of a Portuguese who 

 had been taken prisoner by the Sinhalese " eleven years before " 

 1587, i.e., in 1576 ; but whether in an engagement with Raja 

 Sinha's troops, I cannot say. 



1 In May 1573. 



2 Cesare Federici had a similar experience about this time in a ship 

 bound from Cochin to Sao Thome, which, being unable to round the 

 south of Ceylon, had to " winter " at Mannar. 



3 See supra, p. 225. 



4 In X. vii. xiv. (p. 276) we shall find him still occupying this position 

 in 1586. 



5 Cf. supra, IX. xi. (p. 255). 



6 From a document printed in Col. de Trat. i. 225 ff . it seems that 

 in 1573 Dharmapala was married in Columbo to Dona Margarida, 

 daughter of the king of Kandy, receiving as dowry with her a renewed 

 subjection of the Kandyan kingdom (see infra, pp. 258 and 261). 

 Faria y Sousa {Asia Port. II. in. xviii.) complains of being unable 

 to describe as fully as he wished the events of this period,' owing to the 

 unwillingness of those who had manuscripts to allow him the use of 

 them. The only item of information he gives regarding Ceylon is an 

 account (in II. in. xix.) of the attempted conversion of the " em- 

 peror of Ceylon " by the father " Fray Juan de Villa de Conde " in 1579, 

 and the subsequent baptism of " Don Juan Parea Pandar, king of 

 Cota," — events which, as we have seen {supra, p. 172, note *), really 

 took place some twenty years before. 



