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brought over with him by favours and promises, he reinforced 

 with them the companies, mixing them up with old soldiers, 

 so as to teach them by their example discipline, and to show 

 them the way to fight for that territory — so different in 

 many ways from those possessions which the Portuguese 

 maintained in the rest of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America, 

 as we shall relate further on. 



At the same time Manicravare became rather a school 

 of war than a garrison of the Portuguese army in Gey lan. 

 It had been chosen by the old commanders as a place 

 of arms of considerable importance, because of its posi- 

 tion on the frontier of our common enemy the King of 

 Candia?s territories ; and in his eyes being an open place 

 without walls or fortress, our soldiers were compelled to be 

 always on the alert against continual assaults, and always 

 kept awake as frontier guards. The danger of the post did 

 not allow them the same licence they had in quarters ; so 

 that they could no more trouble the province in which they 

 were quartered by their mutinies, seditions, and other vices, 

 which sapped their strength and spread discontent. It did 

 not appear difficult to our General to bring about the re- 

 formation he desired so much by these means, for the peace 

 with Gandia, which had been the cause of this pitiful state 

 of things, could not last much longer : so, with this dread 

 before him, he went on making his disposition with 

 industrious zeal, rousing up the energy of the Captains, and 

 compelling them to keep the soldiers from idling, inuring 

 them to work, and preparing them for war whilst it was still 

 peace. 



These useful operations were like unto those which 

 Hannibal, that great master in the art of war, introduced 

 amongst his soldiers when he brought over his army from 

 Carthage to Spain. According to Polybius, he manoeuvred 

 them for many days before they came to blows with the 

 enemy : on the first he marched his beloved soldiers thirty 

 furlongs, on the second they cleaned and furnished their 

 arms, on the third they rested, and on the fourth they fought 



