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they can pretend the very utmost submissiveness. For when 

 God had again delivered me from my prison, which took 

 place between Goa and Calutre* by our ships, which fell 

 upon the ships in which we were as enemies, and by the 

 grace of God captured them, I had experience of their 

 cowardly hearts. For they shut us up together, as captive 

 Hollanders, and deliberated in the ships, we being able to 

 hear everything, whether they should let us live or put us 



Angoratota a strong wooden stockade, which they had garrisoned with a 

 hundred and forty men and a company of Bandanese, an! four hundred 

 lascarins from the G-alle districts, who had laid waste the Provinces of 

 Reigancorla and Salpiticorla. With remarkable promptitude Gaspar 

 Figueira got ready, with fifteen companies of infantry and some black 

 troops, who followed the Dissavas of Mature and Sofregao the latter An- 

 tonio Mendes Aranha, the former Francisco Antunes ; he raised this force on 

 account of the enemy's being two leagues from Caliture,a town which 

 they had fortified and garrisoned with a force of fifty men. Arriving at 

 Angoratota he found the enemy well fortified, with the necessary redoubts, 

 defences, flanks, and a ditch, which covered the fortification ; f o* which reason 

 he did not attack them, as he had intended ; and as he could, not do as he 

 wished he laid siege to them. On the third day, seeing that wehad suffered 

 some loss, and that the enemy had a supply of everything reedful for a 

 considerable time, he ordered to be brought from the city [Co.omboJ two 

 cannons of eight pounds each, and when they arrived, at the first shots, 

 they could delay no longer in calling a parley and surrendering uion terms ; 

 he conceded to them that they should go out with their aims, drums 

 beating, banners flying, match lighted, and march to the quarters of the 

 Captain-Major, where they should pile their arms, and that ttey should 

 remain in Columbo until the first monsoon for going to Goa, anl should 

 proceed in our ships to Portugal. In these conditions he did rot allow 

 the lascarins who assisted them to be included, and he sent all of^hem to 

 the city to serve in the powder-mill, except the Araches, seven of wiom he 

 ordered to be impaled, and six to be cut in two with the axe, as thy had 

 been ours ; though indeed inhabitants and natives of the Galle districts. 

 This punishment G-aspar Figueira ordered to be executed on these thirteen 

 Araches under the pretext that they were traitors to the Crown of Portu- 

 gal ; he did it, however, to intimidate the natives, who were helping the 

 Hollanders. With the prisoners he returned victorious to Columbo, wlere 

 he was received by all with great applause." It will be seen from tiis 

 that it was in the Colombo powder-mill that Saar and his comrades hid 

 to labour : Ribeiro's account would lead one to suppose that it was only 

 the natives who were employed in this arduous work. Baldaeus also give; 

 an account of the capture of Angurutota (English translation, p. 787) ♦ 

 but says nothing of the imprisonment in Colombo, &c. 

 * Kalikuth (Dutch ed). 



