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fell into the hands of the victors 1 , including money, rich jewelry, 

 vessels, and artillery, much of the last bearing the arms of 

 Portugal. A younger son of the late king was set up as 

 successor to his father, Andre Furtado apparently remaining 

 until the kingdom was " pacified," while Cosmo de Lafetar 

 proceeded with a large part of the troops to Columbo 2 , arriving 

 just in time to prevent the soldiers of that fortress, who had 

 for the second time mutinied against the captain, Simao de 

 Brito 3 , from deserting to the enemy. 



What Raja Sinha was doing all this time we can only surmise. 

 As I have said above, he appears to have once more laid siege 

 to Columbo ; and on learning of the disturbances in the hill- 

 country and the assumption of authority by Dom Joao d' Austria 

 he prepared to raise the siege 4 , meanwhile sending against 



1 A royal latter of 10 March 1598, printed in Arch. Port.- Or. iii. 

 (863), refers to an inquiry into " the facts of those inculpated in the 

 sack of Jafanapatao among whom is Andre Furtado de Mendoca." 

 In a later letter, however, of 10 December 1598 (Arch. Port.-Or. iii. 

 933), we read that the viceroy wished to send Andre Furtado to Ceylon 

 as general of the conquest, one of his reasons being " because of the 

 natives of those parts fearing him on account of the good success that 

 he had in Jafanapatao " (see infra, p. 421 , note 2 >. 



2 Faria y Sousa, who in Asia Port. III. i. ix. relates in a different form 

 events which he had already described in the previous chapter, makes 

 Andre Furtado go from " Cardiga " to Columbo and arrive there to find 

 the soldiers in revolt. The Vida de M. de Alb. says that Cosmo de Lafetar 

 carried with him the old queen and the little king of Can dea, whom the 

 king of Jaffna had sought to kill : but I think this must be an error. 



3 This man succeeded Joao Correa de Brito as captain of Columbo 

 in 1590. From a royal letter printed in Arch. Port.-Or. iii. (425) it 

 appears that the viceroy had ordered Cosmo de Lafetar to remove 

 Simao de Brito from his post on account of the mutinies against him : 

 and this order seems to have been executed, the post being given to 

 Matheus Pereira, who, however, died before entering upon it, where- 

 upon Pedromem Pereira was appointed (see Arch. Port.-Or. iii. 425, 426). 



4 The Rdjdvaliya (93) says that "Raja Sinha having heard that the 

 hill-country was disturbed repaired to Sitavaka and chid Vikrama- 

 sinha Mudali," from which we may infer that the latter was held 

 responsible for the peace of the Kandyan territories. The native 

 historian goes on to tell how, when Vikramasinha was attacked with 

 dysentery, poison was, by Raja Sinha' s orders, mixed with the medi- 

 cines, whereby the old general died (cf. supra, p. 273, note 6 ), 

 From a royal letter of 1 March 1594, printed in Arch. Port.-Or. iii. (426), 

 it would seem that Raja Sinha had once more (and for the last time) 

 sought for terms of peace with the Portuguese, which had been refused. 



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