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our lascarins some died, and a young modeliar called Dom 

 Francisquinho 1 , who fought very well. The next day 

 Salvador Pereira ordered to be razed to the ground all the 

 enemy's forts, and returned to Corvite, this victory (as we 

 have already said) gaining amongst the Chingalas great name 

 and fame. 



Don Jeronimo d'Azevedo seeing how demoralized the 

 enemy were ordered a tranqueira to be made on the other side 

 of the river Sofragao 2 in the place called Batugedra 3 , it being 

 more convenient for assaulting and demoralizing the enemy : 

 whereupon he found himself so weakened and disappointed 

 of his hopes, that he soon withdrew to Candea, and the fort 

 was dismantled. That which our people made was twenty 

 leagues from Columbo 4 inland, in the midst of all those of the 

 enemy, by which they were greatly repressed. This took 

 place this winter in which we now are of 1597. 



During the same time, on the 27th or 28th of the month of 

 May of the same year, there died the king Dom Joao Perea 

 Pandar 5 , lord of the whole island of Ceilao, to whom was 

 given the most sumptuous interment that the country of itself 

 could give 6 ; and immediately the captain-general Dom 

 Jeronimo d'Azevedo ordered to be summoned to Columbo all 

 the fidalgos of the household of that king, modeliar es, and 

 principal persons, and on the 29th of May they all assembled, 

 there being present Thome de Sousa d'Arronches, captain of 



1 This diminutive form implies, doubtless, that the mudaliyar was 

 short of stature. 



2 The Kalu-gaiiga. 



3 From what is stated here it would seem that either the writer of the 

 Viia dz Mathias de Albuquerque is wrong in saying that a " fort " was 

 built at Batugedara by Dom Jeronimo (see supra, p. 405), or else that 

 tort had been captured by the Sinhalese, and is the one spoken of 

 below as destroyed by the Portuguese (see, however, infra, p. 422, 

 note l ). 



4 The distance given is excessive. 



5 Cf. supra, p. 102, note 2 . As Dharmapala was born probably in 

 1539 (see supra, p. 119, note x ), he must have been about 58 at the time 

 of his death, the cause of which is not stated, but which must have 

 been accelerated by the worries to which the unfortunate " king " was 

 subjected by the captain-general and the captain of Columbo (see supra, 

 p. 406, note 4 ). 



6 Dharmapala was buried in the church of S. Francisco, and his 

 tomb was still extant in 1762, but appears to have perished or been 

 wantonly destroyed at a later date (see M. Lit. Reg. i. 238 ; C. A. S. Jl. 

 xviii. 366). 



