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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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in FROM MALTA TO CEYLON 7$ Singhalese king of exemplary piety. Two and a-halfcenturies later—in 1560—it had a still more terribleexperience. Carried off by the Portuguese among thespoils of the Temple of Jaffna, it was taken to Goa,the capital of Portuguese India. An event of suchgrave religious importance naturally produced consterna-tion and grief among the Buddhists not only of Ceylonbut also of Burma, Siam, and the Far East; and theKing of Pegu, a Burmese potentate, offered a pricelessransom. The Viceroy of Goa, a man of the Galliotype, being anxious to get rid of the normal deficit ofhis budget, was quite ready to entertain proposals ;but his reverend colleague, the archbishop, was a manof a different spirit. Fired with a holy zeal and sup-ported by his clergy, the indignant prelate denouncedpublicly the culpable indifferentism of the civil power,and insisted that the accursed object of idolatrousworship should be immediately destroyed. In vain theViceroy pleaded the parlous

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