No. 60. — 1908.] couto : history of ceylon. 



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Correa 1 , brother of Domingos Correa Bicanarsinga 2 , of whom 

 I have many times spoken, whom I). Jeronimo de Azevedo 

 had ordered to be executed, as has been related in the 

 chapter of the book of the Eleventh Decade 3 . This 



Simao Correa had taken the title of king of. Seitavaca 4 , to whom 

 the tyrant gave a fair-sized army of picked troops and of 

 the most practised modeliares of his kingdom, and among 

 these there would be a thousand firelocks ; and he commanded 

 the king of Uva 5 to get ready with the rest of his forces, to 

 go in his rear and support him. 



This army having set out proceeded to encamp six leagues 

 from Mature, where our arrayal was, the captain-major of 

 which was Dora Fernando modeliar 6 , who today 7 is captain 



while gave him protection on board one of his ships, but had at last to 

 leave him behind (see Ove Giedde's diary passim). He then returned 

 to Tanjor, whence he had come (Col. de Trat.i. 224). Bocarro mentions 

 him once casually (714). See also C. A. S. Jl. xiii. 137. 



1 What Simao Correa' s native name was, does not appear, the 

 Rdjdvaliya (99) describing him simply as " Edirillerala's younger 

 brother." He seems to have revolted from the Portuguese at the same 

 time as his brother Domingos Correa (see supra, pp. 405, 406). Couto 

 mentions him only once again (p. 426) ; but he played a prominent part 

 in Ceylon history in later years, having returned to the Portuguese, 

 married a Portuguese wife, and become a veritable scourge to his 

 fellow-countrymen (see Rdjdv. 99-101; Bald. Ceylon vi.). He was 

 always a suspect, however ; and in 1612 and 1613 the king of Spain 

 sent out orders that he and his wife and household were to be trans- 

 ported to Goa : these orders were, however, not carried out (see Doc. 

 Rem. ii. 134, 309, iii. 200). His death is recorded by the Rdjdvaliya, 

 but no year is given. The memory of his cruelties seems to have sur- 

 vived among the Sinhalese for many years (see C. A. S. Jl. 1848, 24, 

 where " Cawi " is evidently an error for some corruption of " Correa "). 

 Knox (Hist. Rel. 177) specifies one form of his cruelties ; and Tennent 

 (Ceylon ii. 24, note) goes out of his way to father this on the Portu- 

 guese, though Knox distinctly says that Simao Correa was "a Natural 

 Chingulays." 



2 This last word is not to be understood as a name, but as a title, 

 meaning " commander-in-chief " (see supra, p. 225, note 8 ). 



3 The chapter and book of the Eleventh Decade are not specified in 

 either of the editions of Decade XII. (1645 and 1788). Regarding the 

 execution of Domingos Correa see supra, p. 407. 



4 In succession to Jayavira Bau«]ara, murdered by the Portuguese 

 in 1594 (see supra, pp. 396, 402). 



5 The edition of 1645 has in every case " Vva." 



6 See supra, p. 406. 



7 That is, in 1611, when Couto wrote this half Decade (see Introd.). 

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