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A Defcripion 0/ C E Y L O N. 
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rx_A^ rina after having refted herfelf from the 
Baldccta. Fatigues of the Voyage for three days, 
<.yv^ wascrown'd with the ufual Solemnities, 
Is- crowned and put into poffeffion of the Empire. 
there. About that time DoMjfofew Came in the 
5*^" difguife of a Beggar into Candy, where 
hefctfeveral Houfes on nre, in hopes 01 
firing the whole City, but was fruftrated 
in his Delign, the Fire being always 
quenched in good time, tho it often broke 
out in divers Places at once. 
The Portuguefes fufpedting the Matter, 
Reward of loooo Pagodes 
(20000 Crown§) to any that could take 
him dead or alive, which made Don John 
defifl: from his Enterprize, and to return 
to his Defert. 
The Portuguefes finding themfelves 
now in the quiet poITeflion of the Coun- 
try, were no longer able to difguife their 
natural Vices, their Pride, Avarice and 
Infolence, which occafion'd frequent Com- 
plaints to the Emprefs, but without Re- 
drefs J which obliged the Inhabitants to 
enter into an AlTociation to deprive them 
ofallSubliftence, by cutting off their Sup- 
plies of Provifions : This obliged the 
Portuguefe GQntral to fend inconjundion 
with King Janiere Wandaar., 2000 Cinga- 
Itfes and 1 000 Portuguefes, to the Duke- 
jnfiUnccf, dom of Ouve, and 2000 Indians, and 200 
Portuguefes to Halalmia beyond Candy, to 
fetch in Rice and other Provilions. 
The /'orfw^Me/e Soldiers, tho they were 
very well received by the Inhabitants, 
yet did they commit all manner of Info- 
lences in tiieir Qiiarters, even to the 
ravifhing of their Wives, killing their 
Children, and fetting their Houfes on 
fire; fo that the Cingalefes^n^mg them- 
felves in a worfe condition now than 
they were under their tyrannical Empe- 
rors, cntrcd into a Conjuration to kill 
the Portuguefes at a certain appointed 
lime. 
In the mean while Janiere follicited the 
Tortuguefe General Lo^es, for leave to 
marry the Emprefs Catharina ; whichihe 
handforaely deny'd, alledging, that he 
could not confent to it, without fpecial 
Order from the King of Portilgal, but 
that he would write to the King about it. 
Janiere looking upon this only as an Ex- 
cufe, defir'd to let him marry his Sifter's 
Daughter ; which being likewife refufed 
by the General, Janiere conceived from 
that Moment a mortal Hatred againft the 
Portuguefes, and could not forbear to tell 
Siijfcrina the General, that He did not expe{f to have 
Portu- ^'^^ ^'^^ ^ Reward for the Services he 
gacki and ^^'^ (^o«(? them, fwcaring that they fhould 
Jjniere. have occafion to recent it. The Portuguefe 
being fomewhat exafperated at this un- 
expeded Reply, told him that he ought 
not to take it amifs, if he denied him 
what was not in his Power to give, viz. 
Donna Catherina the legal Heirefs of the 
Empire, to him who had ufurped the Ti- 
tle of a King, merely by being got into 
the polTeflion of the Treafure of Ra'jd 
Singa Mafcyn, but that he fliould be ve- 
ry ready to ferve him upon any other oc- 
cafion. Janiere being put out of all Pati- 
ence by thefe infulting Words, replied 
fmartly, I am fen/ibk of your De/ign ; you 
that came here as Strangers, novD you have 
got your Ends thro my means, are the firfi 
who would tyrannize over me. Then recol- 
leding himfelf, he began to turn the Dif- 
courfe, difiembling his Refentment ; Lur 
the fame Night difpatched a Letter to janiere 
Donjohnin the Defrrr, v, herein he ad- enters h 
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vcrtis'd him of what had pafled betwixt 'J i-e^igue 
him and the Portugwfe General, offering ^''^^ 
him the Empire, provided he would re- 
ceive him as King of the Low-Lands; 
which Don John approving of, they entred 
into a Confederacy to rid their Hands of 
the Portuguefes. 
Things being thus fettled, Don John 
began to appear among the Cingalefes (al- 
ready much exafperated againft the Portu. 
guefes ) reprefenting to them the Danger 
they were in, and how he was refolved 
in conjundion with Janiere to drive them 
out of the Ifland ; which they readily ac- 
cepted of, promifing all the alliftance they 
were able to give. But as Janiere fent 
frequent Letters to Don John, it hap- 
pened that fome of them fell into the 
hands of the Portuguefes, who being there- 
by fully convinc'd of the Defign carried 
on againft them, begun, not without 
great reafon, to fear, that unlefs they 
confented to the Marriage of Janiere with 
Donna Catherina,theY would fcarce be able 
to maintain themfelves in the Ifle. 
A Council being called for this pur- 77'eportu- 
pofe, they were much divided in their guefesw;?- 
Opinions, fome being for confenting tof^'^f,^^'>^^ 
the Marriage to prevent farther Mifchief, J'"'«f^- 
and to have Von John murdered ; whilft 
others were for hazarding all, rather than 
to confent to the Match, and to have Ja. 
niere murdered, under pretence that he 
had laid a Defignto murder the Emprefs 
and the General ; for which pnrpofe 
fome forged Letters were to be produced, 
to juftify their Condud. 
Toencompafs this Defign, they took f'C'folvgh'a 
the Opportunity, when Janiere was one , 
day in conference with the Portuguefe Ge- 
neral and fome other Officers : The Ge- 
neral feeing him have a Scymster on his 
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