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Negombo, placed in it " three " pieces of artillery ; B., 

 followed by LeG., makes it "ten" ("des" for " tres % 

 Regarding Dom Filippe Mascarenhas, Ribeiro says : — " .... 

 of the many nobles I knew during nineteen years in that 

 dominion [India], he surpassed all in his character and 

 virtues." LeG. has blundered over this, and made Ribeiro 

 say that he was acquainted with this noble " during eighteen 

 years." (B. has "em 18 annos alias 19.") Ribeiro says 

 that Antonio da Mota Galvao was sent to Sabaragamuwa to 

 bring it under the rule of the Portuguese ; LeG. says that 

 he was sent from that district for that purpose ! 



Chapter IX. — Ribeiro says that Fernao de Mendosa, when 

 escaping from the Kandyan King's dominions, reached 

 Matara through the "Grevaias," which, as usual, Lee has 

 rendered " gravets." 



Chapter X. — Ribeiro says that Antonio da Mota Galvao sent 

 an escort to meet the prince of Uva at " Opanaique " (Opana- 

 yaka). The copyist of B., mistaking the first letter of this 

 name for the Portuguese definite article, makes it " o 

 Panaique," which LeG. copies. Strangely enough, L.A. is 

 still worse, for it reads "o panaique." 



Chapter XL — LeG. says that the Prince of Uva was accom- 

 panied to Goa by two nobles and " two " servants. Ribeiro 

 does not specify the number of the latter. The account of 

 the Prince's baptism is also a good deal abbreviated by LeG. 



Chapter XIL — The copyist of B. has omitted a couple of 

 lines near the beginning of this chapter, and LeG., not 

 being able to make sense of what remained, has abbreviated 

 considerably. For the "Cadangao" of L.A., B. has 

 " Candegam" (in LeG. " Condegan "), which is nearer the 

 correct form of the name, viz., Kendangomuwa. LeG. 

 has again altered "Balave" to " Balane," and Lee has once 

 more rendered " Gravayas" by " Gravets." For the " Acomi- 

 vina" (Akmimana) of L.A., B. has "Acomevina," which in 

 LeG. is altered to " Acomerina." LeG. omits the statement 

 of Ribeiro that the Dutch commissary who arrived in 

 Colombo in February, 1643, to inform the Portuguese of 



