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which the General took counsel, and sent to advise the Viceroy at Goa, 
where the letters arrived this winter, and having been laid before the 
Council, it was found that the King of Candia, called Anaras [read 
Enarat] Pandar, begged that the State would make peace with him in 
perpetuity, he making himself a vassal of His Majesty, with the 
obligation of paying as tribute yearly four elephants of five cubits 
each, one thousand amanoes [ammunams] of areca, and two hundred 
bares of cinnamon (all of which was of great importance), begging 
that His Majesty would confirm him in the kingdom, and to three 
sons [sic'] that he had. And the terms of peace appearing to all to be 
very honourable, they agreed that they should be granted to him, with 
the proviso, however, that the confirmation of the kingdom, seeing that 
it pertained to His Majesty (by the dotation of it that had been made 
to him by Dom Joao, the prince his rightful heir, who went to Portugal, 
and whose name had been assumed by the rebel Nicapety Bandar), 
should be granted to him in such a manner that there should always be 
room for His.Majesty to take possession of it, on the State's having the 
forces which were now so necessary for the enemies of Europe. The 
King of Candia also promised to build anew at his own cost the fortress 
of Balane, and to hand it over with all the artillery and other things that 
he had taken therein ; and that he would consent to the erection of a 
fortress in Candia, and the quartering therein of a garrison of 
Portuguese ; all of which, with the other conditions, appeared very 
favourable, and so the General Dom Nuno Alvares Pereira sent as 
ambassador to Candia Diogo de Sousa da Cunha, a casado in Columbo, 
and the father Frei Gaspar da Magdalena and another friar of the 
order of St. Francis ; and because, when the king proposed terms of 
peace with the said conditions, the rebel Nicapety was having great 
success, acclaimed as king by the whole island, the fear of whom drove 
him to seek to ally himself with the Portuguese, on seeing the many 
times that we defeated him, and that he had little to fear from him, 
he proceeded to renounce most of the conditions ; whereupon there 
ensued many debates on both sides, and in spite of lacking the restitu- 
tion of the fortress of Balane and the granting of a fortress in Candia 
and the rest of the points of the tribute, peace was concluded with 
him solely with the condition of his becoming a vassal of His Majesty, 
with two elephants as tribute ; Barreto thus being left, making war on 
the two dissavas of Sof ragao and Mature, having them for himself, and 
being ruler of them. The which terms of peace were proclaimed in 
Columbo on the 17th of August, 1617." Danvers [(Report on Port. 
Records^ p. 133) says : — " ... on the death of D. Catharina, Portuguese 
troops were sent to take possession of the kingdom of Kandy ; they 
were however repulsed, and on the 24th [67c] August, 1617, a treaty 
was signed with the King of Kandy, under which, in return for an 
acknowledgment of his sovereignty by the King of Portugal, he 
agreed to pay a tribute of two elephants yearly, to suppress any rising 
within his dominions, to give up all the Portuguese taken at Balane, 
