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under the Portuguese. 
without mercy, to satiate the avarice of their foreign masters. 
These injuries, at length, became altogether insupportable ; the 
natives privately entered into a combination to cut off the sup- 
plies of the Portuguese, and a day was appointed for a general 
attack on these oppressors. This league was headed by Janiere, 
who now found that he had been made the dupe of their 
treacherous policy. The Portuguese had privately promised 
him that he should marry Donna Catharina, provided he al- 
lowed her to be quietly seated on the throne ; but when he 
urged the fulfilment of this promise, he was refused with the 
most insolent harshness. He had, upon this, opened a negoci- 
ation with Don John, offering him the dominion of the low- 
lands, provided he himself was allowed to retain undisturbed 
possession of the interior. The Portuguese, on discovering this 
correspondence, caused Janiere and his attendants to be mur- 
dered in the palace of Candy, w’here he then resided along 
with their forces. On learning his fate, all the other princes, 
with their troops, immediately fled from the Portuguese camp. 
The young Queen, who still remained in their hands, loudly 
declared her abhorrence of the murder, and told the Portu- 
guese, who attempted to justify themselves to her, that they 
would soon feel the effects of the treachery. 
The hopes of Don John now again began to revive, and his 
preparations were not a little assisted by the indignation which 
the murder of Janiere had excited. The Portuguese perceived 
that they should not be able, with their present forces, to 
retain possession of Candy against a general combination of the 
'■ natives. They,' therefore, determined to retreat towards the 
coast; and for this purpose, marched from their camp at Gan- 
noor, near Candy, to Wallanee. The natives, however, bent 
