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"fifteen hundred" instead of "five hundred." Ribeiro says 

 that D. Jorge de Almeida landed at Colombo " at the end of 

 October, 1631"; LeG. says "on the 21st of October of the 

 year 1631." 



Chapter III. — Ribeiro says that the Portuguese whom the 

 Captain-General had deprived of the elephant given him by 

 the King of Kandy received from the latter " precious stones " 

 of double the value. LeG. simply says " presents." 



Chapter IV. — As an example of the carelessness of 

 the copyist of B., and of the way in which he has altered 

 words arbitrarily, I may mention the following. L.A. 

 reads :— " Com esta resposta se poz logo o General em 

 marcha com toda a gente de guerra das nossos terras"; but 

 B. has : — " Com esta Reposta sepos logo o Rey em marcha, 

 ou general em marcha com toda agente da Terra de nossos 

 dominios." 



Chapter V. — The words with which this chapter concludes 

 in LeG., viz., "and thus was kindled in the Island of 

 Ceylon a war that cost Portugal dearly," are not found in 

 Ribeiro. 



Chapter VI. — According to Le Grand, Ribeiro makes the 

 statement that " there is no port on that side," i.e. f on the 

 east coast of Ceylon ; and Lee appends to this a note, 

 saying : — " . . . . it is unnecessary to point out the inaccu- 

 racy of this remark to those who know that there is perhaps 

 not a finer harbour in the world, certainly not in the Eastern 

 seas, than that of Trincomalee." But Ribeiro does not make 

 any such assertion : he simply says that the position of 

 Batticaloa and Trincomalee rendered them of little use to the 

 Portuguese, who spent more on those places than they got 

 from them. According to L.A. it was "after seven days" 

 that the garrison of Trincomalee capitulated to the Dutch ; 

 B. has " in a few days." 



Chapter VII. — Ribeiro describes Caimel as being situated 

 "a league to the north of Negumbo"; LeG. says "a league 

 from Negumbo "; while Lee makes it "a league below Ne- 

 gombo." According to L.A. the Portuguese, after fortifying 



