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that he was "an active and vigilant man, but one not to 

 the taste of everybody, and regarded more as the spy and 

 minister to the passions of the General than as a camp 

 Marshal." "Arandure" (Arandara) is in B. written "Andure," 

 and LeG. has still further altered this to " Andune." 



Chapter XVIII. — The greater part (about six-sevenths) of 

 this chapter is omitted by B. 



Chapter XIX. — About three-fourths of this chapter is 

 omitted by B., including the explanation of the word 

 " Garaveto "(gravef) as "a gate for the entrance of a stockade." 



Chapter XX. — About half of this chapter is omitted by B. 

 LeG. has joined this chapter to chapter XIX. Ribeiro says 

 that the Dutch placed in the Rayigam Korale " four hundred 

 lascarins." LeG. has 4,000, having been misled by B., which 

 reads "quatro sentos mil lascarins." 



Chapter XXI. — B. has omitted about a fourth of this short 

 chapter, one omission being Ribeiro's statement that General 

 Hulft's squadron " consisted of eighteen ships and two 

 patachos, in which were six thousand men of war." 



Chapter XXII. — B. omits about half of this chapter. 

 Chapters XXI. and XXII. form chapter XX. in LeG. 



Chapter XXIII. — No less than seven-eighths of this chapter 

 is omitted by B. For " Nossa Senhora da Vida " LeG. has 

 " nuestra Senora d'ajuda" thus substituting Spanish for Por- 

 tuguese, and converting "Our Lady of Life" into "Our Lady 

 of Help." A good example of the utter nonsense that the 

 writer of B. has made of Ribeiro by his omissions is found in 

 this chapter, where LeG., following B., states that Antonio 

 de Mello de Castro, with one hundred men, killed more than 

 three thousand of the enemy ; whereas in fact, Ribeiro says 

 that in the assault on the battery of Santa Cruz the Dutch 

 lost more than two thousand (" mais de dous mil " ; but 

 B., " pacjante de trez mil"). 



Chapter XXIV. — More than three-fourths of this chapter 

 is omitted by B., and in LeG. it is condensed into some 

 dozen lines. The "countermine" (" contramina ") of L.A. 

 is converted in B. into a "curtain" (" cortina"). 



