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Chapter V. — In this chapter Ribeiro shows that it was 

 necessary for the Portuguese to maintain only Malacca, Or muz, 

 and Goa. B. omits more than three-fifths of the chapter, 

 and LeG. omits the whole of it. 



Chapter VI. — This continues the subject of the preceding 

 chapter. About three-fourths is omitted by B., and the whole 

 by LeG. 



Chapter VII. — In this chapter Ribeiro argues that the 

 Portuguese should have abandoned the whole of their posses- 

 sions in India and occupied Ceylon exclusively. B. omits 

 three-fourths of the chapter and LeG. the whole. 



Chapter VIII. — The heading of this chapter is, " How 

 the produce of the lands of the Island should have been 

 gathered," but, as I have said, LeG. has substituted the 

 heading of chapter I., and has made this a part of the first 

 chapter of Book III. in his translation. B., from which 

 he translates, has omitted about five-sevenths of the chapter. 

 Ribeiro says that the king of Kandy might have exported 

 yearly not one hundred shiploads of cinnamon, but two or 

 three thousand ; LeG. says " one or two thousand." 



Chapter IX. — The subject of this chapter, according to 

 the heading, is "The chief errors of modern times." B. 

 omits half of the chapter, and LeG. joins his translation 

 of the remaining half to the preceding chapter. In describ- 

 ing the sufferings which he endured in the service of his 

 king in Ceylon, Ribeiro says that for eighteen years he 

 had " marching by night and by day, going barefoot, and 

 covered with forest leeches, always living in the jungle." 

 Le Grand's version is that he " passed eighteen years in 

 the woods of Ceylon, going almost naked, and torn by the 

 thorns." The reason why he does not mention the leeches is, 

 that B., in place of " cuberto de sanguesugos do mato," reads 

 " cuberto de sangue cheigas do matto," which is nonsense. 



Chapter X. — The heading put to this chapter by LeG. 

 (who makes it chapter II. in his translation) is not found 

 in Ribeiro, who simply states that it brings the work to a 

 conclusion. Three-fifths of the chapter is omitted by B. 



