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the ten years' treaty of peace, was Pieter Burel, and that he 

 came with four ships. 



Chapter XIII.— Ribeiro says that the battle of " Curaca " 

 lasted from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon ; LeG. 

 makes it commence at 8 A.M. LeG. makes the name of 

 the Dutch commander " Vanderhat "; L.A. has " Uvanderlat," 

 and B. " Vvanderlat." (Of course Van der Laan is meant.) 

 Ribeiro adds that he was " the best soldier they had in the 

 Island." The wounded on the Portuguese side were 67, 

 and not 60, as LeG. has it. Ribeiro does not state, as 

 LeG. makes him say, that the Captain-General raised the 

 ranks and the pay of those wounded in this conflict : he 

 simply says that he slipped under the bolster of each a 

 paper containing 12, 15, or 20 San-Thomes, according to their 

 rank. LeG. is also inaccurate in other details. For 

 "Acomivina" or "Acomevina" LeG. has " Comeriau, ,, 

 which Lee has altered to " Comerian." (This curious mistake 

 is due partly to a misprint and partly to Le Grand's mis- 

 reading of B., the copyist of which has written " a Comevina.") 

 LeG., following B., has the misspellings " Mapoligana " and 

 " Bolitote," for "Mapolegama " and " Belitote." To the latter 

 name Lee has a note, " ? Bentotte." This is absurd: Welitota 

 is the place referred to. " Mapolegama " is of course 

 Mapalagama. There seems to be no doubt that by " Curaca " 

 Ribeiro meant Mirissa, but how the name assumed such a 

 guise I cannot imagine, unless it was in some way confused 

 with Akuressa. 



Chapter XIV. — Through a stupid blunder of the copyist 

 of B., LeG. makes Ribeiro say that Pedro de Sousa left 

 Colombo for Negombo at 8 in the morning, whereas he 

 simply says that eight companies marched from Colombo to 

 assist the other Portuguese troops. Ribeiro also says that 

 they marched with great difficulty, as the route consisted of 

 five leagues of deep sand, which caused them to go back- 

 wards as much as forwards. " Poijinho," which Ribeiro states 

 was midway between Colombo and Negombo, means " the 

 little well." LeG. says that on the news of the defeat of the 



