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the same time the war was to be carried on without mercy, 

 no male above fourteen years of age being spared. The native 

 troops were to be organized in four bodies and placed under 

 the command of experienced leaders like Simao Correa and 

 Luiz Pinto ; the muster-rolls were to be revised, and each 

 lascorin paid a larin a month, and each arachchi two. Batti- 

 caloa and Trincomalee, which with Cottiar formed the three 

 chief ports of the Sinhalese, were to be fortified against a 

 possible seizure by the Hollanders, and the kingdom of Jaffna- 

 patam reduced into the condition of a Portuguese province, 

 The trade in cinnamon was to be treated as a monopoly, 

 and each year a thousand bahars despatched to Goa for sale, 

 the proceeds being remitted to Colombo to be kept in a 

 separate chest there. 



In January, 1615, the new general took the field, the 

 native levies being commanded by the four dissavas, Simao 

 Correa of the Seven Korales, Luiz Gomes Pinto of the Four 

 Korales, Luiz Cabaral de Faria of Sabaragamuwa, and 

 Domingos Carvalho Cam of Matara. Crossing the Mahaweli- 

 ganga at Gampola with great difficulty in consequence of the 

 floods, the army pushed on to Maturata and occupied Badulla, 

 burning all the villages on the road. A severe encounter 

 followed with three thousand of the enemy, the day being 

 secured by the gallantry of the Atapattu guard of the Seven 

 Korales. The city was then set on fire, all the fruit trees in 

 the neighbourhood destroyed, and the general returned to 

 Malvana in March. 



The following August the districts of Tumpane and Haris- 

 pattu were ravaged and all the inhabitants put to the sword ; 

 some loss was sustained by an ambush which had been 

 prepared at Aluwa,* but it was found possible to push on the 

 invasion as far as Matale, where a force of the enemy was 

 routed. The next month Filippe de Oliveira, dissava of the 

 Seven Korales, again invaded the enemy's country, and 

 returned with considerable booty by Christmas, 1615. 



In March, 1616, Nuno Alvares Pereira,f who had been 

 appointed in March, 1613, arrived as general ; under the 



* Haloluwa. 



f Bocerro : Ribeiro, p. 152. 



