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de Tavora, which consisted of twenty-six or twenty-seven ships 
loaded with provisions, in which the King alone was interested 
to the extent of one hundred thousand xerafins. The loss 
amounted to over two hundred thousand xerafins. 
9 he loss owing to the destruction of our settlement 
(arrayal), and of other villages in Ceylad by the Chingalas 
(Singalese) is estimated at two hundred and twenty thousand 
xerafins. Three hundred and fifty Portuguese with their General 
Costantino de S& de Noronha were killed in this action. 
197. Of the fleet which the Count of Linhares sent to 
Cochim, the galley in which D. Jorge de Almeida was going to 
Ceylad was lost, causing a loss of sixteen thousand xerafins, 
and the death by drowning of thirty Portuguese. 
198. The spoils which the treacherous King took from us 
after the fall of the fortress of Mombaca are estimated at four 
hundred thousand xerafins in money, goods and_ artillery. 
ides other people, ninety Portuguese and eight religious 
were killed in this affair. 
The fleet, which Dom Francisco de Moura took to 
Mombaca, sustained a loss of ten thousand xerafins, both in 
the Galliot of Andre de Vasconcellos, which was taken by the 
utch, and in the arms and spoils which the Negroes captured 
from us, killing one hundred men. : A 
._ The loss in the two ports of Orixa [Orissa], Cuguly 
in Bengal, which the Moorish Mogols took and destroyed, is 
estimated at one million and eight hundred thousand xerafins, 
both in money and in merchandise. Three hundred Portu- 
guese were killed, and six Galliots, together with other small 
craft, were taken. 
The Nayque of Maduré came to sack our settlement 
of Negapatas, and took nearly twenty thousand xerafins./ 
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suese, two hundred Christians of mixed descent, some Fath 
of the Company [of Jesus] and a Dominican, and took clothing 
to the value of one hundred and fifty thousand xeratins. 
203. In the Patache of Antonio Leyte de es 
1 : 
In the Galliot of Diogo de Mello ne sense gen 
}a8 Coming from Malaca to Sad Thomé and was taken pid am 
Dutch, the loss amounted to twenty-five shomnens sere 
ieee 
bi ] A misprint for Ouguly, i.e., Hugli. The other port was probably 
_ or Higili—H. Hosten S.J. : full and 
? River Zambezi and its many branches, E. Africa. For @ His Pil- 
Pine Poetic description of the river, dated 1597. ef. Purchas 
“mes, vol. ix, pp. 220-221. 
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