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THE MASCARENHAS I. & II.                 251
the island of Ceylon. He always kept the most subtle poison at hand, to make use of whenever he wished his vengeance to be swift. Having in this way, made many enemies, who feared for themĀ­selves the fate of his victims, he was found one morning hung in effigy in Goa, when I was there, in the year 1648."