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Chapter XXV. — More than five-sevenths of this chapter 

 is omitted by B. In this and the two preceding chapters 

 Ribeiro gives most interesting details of the siege of 

 Colombo, and draws a terrible picture of the sufferings 

 endured by the Portuguese from want of food and pestilence. 

 Beside dogs, fifteen elephants were eaten, only the famous 

 Ortela being spared. LeG. has combined this and the two 

 preceding chapters as chapter XXI. of his translation. 



Chapter XXVI. (chapter XXII. in LeG.). — B. omits three- 

 fourths of this chapter, including the statement that the 

 Portuguese prisoners were sent to Negapatam. LeG. gives 

 May 10, 1656, as the date of the evacuation of Colombo by the 

 Portuguese ; Ribeiro says that it was May 12. 



Chapter XXVII. (chapter XXIII. in LeG.).— More than 

 half of this chapter is omitted by B. In the list of persons 

 who were present at the siege of Jaffna, LeG., following B., 

 inserts after the name of Joao Botado de Seixas that of 

 " Lancarote de Sexas," and makes Mathias Catanho (printed 

 " Catarho ") the " Vedor da Fazenda," or Controller, instead 

 of Leonardo de Oliveira. 



Book III. 



Chapter I. — B. omits more than a half of this chapter, and 

 LeG. passes it by entirely, except the heading, which he has 

 attached to chapter VIII. 



Chapter II. — More than half of this chapter also is omitted 

 by B., and the whole of it by LeG. It deals, like the first 

 chapter, with the errors committed by the Portuguese in their 

 conquest of India. 



Chapter III. — B. omits more than three-fifths of this 

 chapter, which LeG. has entirely left out. It treats of the 

 whole of the Portuguese empire in India, and describes the 

 various fortresses. 



Chapter IF.— The subject of the preceding chapter is con- 

 tinued in this. B. omits almost the whole of this chapter, 

 and the parts that remain are so utterly disconnected that 

 it is no wonder that LeG. passes over it also. 



