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were covered with forest and patana. and almost continually 

 shrouded in cloud and mist. The sun not penetrating 

 through the trees made the air cold and damp, so that fever 

 and ague were added to their misery before they reached 

 their last resting-place. 



I shall not repeat the narrative. Constantino de Sa, 

 deserted by the Mudaliyars, who went over to the enemy 

 with nearly all the lascarins, fell dying gallantly at the 

 head of his few devoted followers ; but he did not fall 

 before he had with his own sword, as his son relates, " sent 

 sixty of his bloodthirsty foes to hell." 



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