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overlooking the sea Diogo Gonsalves, an old man and ex- 

 perienced in war 1 ; in the watch-tower midway Diogo da 

 Silva mudeliar, who had also to guard the new mud- wall 2 ; 

 Joao Gracia in the bastion of Sao Thome ; Estevao Gomes 

 in that of Santo Estevao ; on the stretch of wall from this 

 bastion to the watch-tower of Sancta Anna he placed Miguel 

 Vas with a Portuguese and the eigh t Chingalas 3 that ran away 

 from Raju to the fortress ; in the bastion of Sao Sebastiao 4 

 was stationed Luis Correa da Silva ; and on the stretch of wall 

 that runs from it to Santo Antonio he placed Dom Joao de 

 Austria, mudeliar of Candea 5 , who afterwards rose and seized 



and south-westward, then by the sea northward, and finally along the 

 bay eastward and north-eastward to the point of departure. If we 

 only had as detailed a description of the various buildings inside the 

 fort, we could form a very good idea of what Col umbo was like at that 

 period : unfortunately none such has come down to us ; and as the 

 earliest plan of the city that I know of, that of Pedro Barretto de Res- 

 sende (1646), has no accompanying description, we can but guess at the 

 situation of many of the buildings mentioned by Ribeiro and other 

 writers. It will be noticed that most of the persons named as appointed 

 to guard the walls and bastions were natives of Ceylon. 



1 He is mentioned in VII. v. vi. as captain of the vessels guarding 

 Goa in 1558. InX. x. vii. (p. 339) infra we shall hear of him in connec- 

 tion with a remarkable incident. 



2 See supra, p. 282. 



3 The eight panicals (see supra, p. 286). 



4 This bastion looked towards the district still known as St. Sebastian 

 from a church that stood there in Portuguese times (see pla,n of Columbo 

 in Baldseus's Ceylon). 



5 This casual mention of the man who afterwards became the con- 

 queror and successor of the redoubtable "Raju " and the bitter foe of 

 the Portuguese seems to indicate that in some other part of his history 

 Couto had given details showing how he came to be in Columbo at this 

 time. We should have looked for these in the course of this Decade ; 

 but, as they do not appear therein, we can only conclude that Couto 

 postponed them until he came to describe the events of 1588-92. 

 Fortunately the Rdjdvaliya here comes to our aid, and tells us (90) of the 

 treacherous murder, by command of Raja Sinha, of Virasundara Bapdara, 

 who had raised an insurrection in the Kandyan territory, and of the 

 consequent flight to Columbo of his son Konappu Bandara accompanied 

 by Salappu Bandara, both of whom were welcomed by the Portuguese, 

 and having married the daughters of Tammitarala were baptized as 

 Christians, Konappu receiving the high-sounding name of Don John of 

 Austria, in memory of. the hero of Lepanto (see C. Lit. Reg. vi. 333 ; 

 M. Lit. Reg. iv. 166). When this ceremony took place, I have failed 

 to discover. Twice subsequently in this Decade (pp. 321, 350) the 

 mudaliyar is mentioned. 



