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soldiers during those two years had become worn out by the 

 continual marches and toils," &e., and goes on to say : — " how- 

 ever, at this time an order reached him from the Viceroy, 

 the Conde de Linhares, in which he expressly commanded 

 him that he should once for all conquer that Kingdom, 

 accusing him of remissness." LeG. has misunderstood the 

 first part of this passage strangely, for he renders it : — " .... 

 from there he went to Malvana, where the King solicited 

 him earnestly for some time to endeavour to reduce the rest 

 of the country. The General recognised the importance and 

 the difficulties of this enterprise," &c. Apparently the Abbe 

 thought the " King" referred to was the Portuguese " King of 

 Malvana." Lee seems not to have been able to understand 

 what was meant by "the King," for he leaves him out entirely, 

 and translates : — " .... he went to Malwana, where he 

 received pressing orders," &c. LeG. makes Ribeiro say that 

 the Viceroy was ignorant of previous communications on the 

 subject of the capture of Ceylon : this is absurd, and is not 

 borne out by the original. Ribeiro gives the year 1630 as 

 that when Constantino de Sa became for the second time 

 Captain-General of Ceylon, and prepared to enter on the 

 campaign which cost him his life : this LeG. omits. Ac- 

 cording to L.A. the four traitor Mudaliyars were "allied 

 to the chief Portuguese inhabitants," but according to B. 

 " with persons of authority." LeG. has made an Addition 

 to this chapter, in which some details are given regarding 

 the traitors, 



Chapter II. — Ribeiro says : — " The soldiers that he [the 

 General] had did not amount to four hundred ; wherefore 

 he chose some citizens of Columbo capable of accompanying 

 him, and with the one and the other body he made up five 

 hundred men, and some twenty thousand lascarins." 

 LeG. renders this : — " He drew as many as four hundred 

 Portuguese from the garrisons, and enrolled some thousand 

 or eleven hundred in Colombo ; so that he collected nearly 

 fifteen hundred Portuguese and twenty thousand Lascarins." 

 As before, the Abbe has misunderstood " quinhentos" to mean 



