_ 24 _ and with which they seemed to have received the milk of Christianity, I hope in Our Lord that they will yield fruit such as Your Highness desires, and which is so opposed to that of the King of Tana as for the salvation of Your Highness and the increase of your faith is necessary. One of them is the true King of Ceilão, as he is the son of the old King by a sister of the Queen, as I by the letter I wrote to you on the subject of Ceilão Your Highness can see, in which I stated the reason for this being so, and the motive why I accepted him, and sent for him to India, he was brought up in my house being a child of four, more or less, and of a disposition from whom all good may be hoped for, and as soon as I shall reach Goa I will provide for his bringing up, and safety of his life, for he is, Senhor, the Lord (?) of the whole island by right, and in reason. The other King is the Lord of Triquina Malee who has been recently converted, and is of the same island of Ceylon, but on the side of Choromandell, a very fertile country and very populous, this one is about seven or eight years of age, I deliver him up to Padre Antonio Gomez, for him to bring up and educate in the College of Sam Paulo, as the work of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, because he was baptized by them in the fishery as I have already written to Your Highness by another letter.
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