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which made but a show of resistance to the advancing 

 army. Finding that the old queen had fled with her grandson 1 

 to Denavaka 2 , carrying with her the royal treasures, Jayavira 

 Bandara set off in pursuit 3 , captured and brought back the 

 fugitives and the treasure, which was handed over to Pedro 

 Homem Pereira 4 , who seems to have shortly afterwards 

 returned to Columbo, taking with him the boy prince 5 , the 

 old queen, it would appear, having succumbed soon after her 

 capture 6 . Jayavira Bandara having been left in command 

 at Sitavaka, the Portuguese under D. Juliao de Noronha 

 returned to Columbo at the end of May, on the way encoun- 

 tering and defeating a body of Sinhalese under a "rebel" 

 leader 7 , and destroying the devale at Navagomuva 8 , in the 

 ruin of which many natives perished. 



We must now return for a moment to Dom Joao d' Austria, 

 whom we left victorious in the battle with Raja Sinha at the 

 foot of the Balane pass. Not desiring, and probably not 



1 The Vida de M. de Alb. adds to these a prince and princess, whom 

 I cannot identify. 



2 The Vida de M. de Alb. has "the city of Oivava," which last word 

 appears to be a misreading for " Dinavaca." 



3 So the Rajavaliya. According to the Vida de M. de Alb. Joao 

 Rodrigues Camello with two hundred soldiers also took part in the 

 pursuit. 



4 The VidadeM. deAlb. says that the treasure exceeded one hundred 

 thousand pardaos, besides what Jayavira Bandara and his lascarins 

 stole and kept for themselves ; and that there were captured twenty - 

 four pieces of artillery and a large number of muskets, ammunition, 

 and all kinds of arms, which were recovered from the wells and cisterns 

 in which they had been hidden. A royal letter of 9 March 1596, 

 printed in the Arch. Port.-Or. iii. (617), acknowledges receipt of a 

 letter from Pedro Homem Pereira, in which the same sum as that given 

 above is named. 



5 Who henceforward disappears from Ceylon history. For his 

 subsequent career see supra, p. 392, note 4 . 



6 The Rajavaliya (97) alone records her death, giving a very curious 

 account of the cause and manner of it. 



7 Who this was, I do not know. 



8 The Vida de M. de Alb., which alone records this act of vandalism, 

 has " the famous pagode of Nago," which I identify as above. In 

 Valentyn's map of Ceylon " Nagano. " is shown, but erroneously on the 

 north bank of the Kelani. On Navagomuva devale see Return of 

 Architectural and Archceological Remains in Ceylon (1890) 2. 



