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raising of the siege this man had a quarrel with his companion 

 and brother-in-law Salappu Bapdara, whom he seems to have 

 wounded, perhaps fatally. For this offence he was banished to 

 Goa, where his success in ridding the city of a notorious 

 swashbuckler and bully, whom he killed in a duel, restored him 

 to favour 1 . 



After their conversion to Christianity the two Kandyan 

 princes were persuaded by their Franciscan teachers to make 

 a formal donation of their kingdom to the crown of 

 Portugal, in case they should leave no heirs 2 . To a request 

 by D. Filippe that he might be allowed to go to Portugal, 

 King Philip of Spain sent a peremptory refusal ; but to another 

 request he seems to have been not so unfavourable : this was, 

 that D. Filippe should be sent with an armed force to regain 

 possession of his kingdom 3 . In 1589 D. Filippe was once 

 more residing in Mannar, and expressing his determination to 

 go to Kandy, the Romish priests encouraging him in his wish, 

 but the governor at Goa, Manoel de Sousa Coutinho, opposing 

 it 4 . By the following year, however, affairs in Ceylon had 

 taken a turn that caused the governor to change his mind. 



It would seem that Raja Sinha, having recuperated his army, 

 was in 1590 once more threatening Columbo with another 

 siege 5 . On the receipt of this intelligence in Goa, the banished 

 mudaliyar Dom Joao d' Austria volunteered to go with a 

 force by way of Mannar to Kandy, create a disturbance in 

 the hill-country, and thus cause Raja Sinha to raise the siege 

 of Columbo 6 . Probably importuned thereto by the priests, 

 Manoel de Sousa appears to have consented to Dom Filippe's 



1 Rdjdv. 92 ; Mahdv. xciv. 1-3 ; C. Lit. Reg. vi. 333. 



2 Hist. Seraf. iii. 541 ; cf. also Col. de Trat. i. 226. (See supra, p. 261.) 



3 See Arch. Port.-Or. iii. 126, 203. 



4 See Arch. Port.-Or. iii. 255. It is probable that after the raising of 

 the siege of Columbo in February 1588 Dom Filippe proceeded to 

 Mannar. 



5 The Rdjdv. (92) is the only authority I have found for this state- 

 ment. The year I infer (see p. 392, note 2 , infra). 



6 Rdjdv. 92. Whether Konappu Bandara had any ulterior motive 

 in offering his services, it is impossible to say ; but I am inclined to 

 think that his real object was to gain the throne of Kandy for himself, 

 azid that he laid his plans accordingly. 



