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Just about this time arrived at Jafanapatan the Captain 

 Felipe de Oliveira ; it was the month of March, when a great 

 storm of wind and rain for several days swept over the Island, 

 causing great inundations, doing great damage with loss of 

 life. The Captain, who was recovering from a serious illness, 

 publicly did penance, and with tears prayed to God to remit 

 the public punishment and turn it on himself. In three 

 weeks God took him, to the great grief of every one in the 

 Island, for he was a man of great parts in religion and of 

 great valour. He had destroyed more than 500 pagodes ; as 

 much a conqueror of people as of souls, so that the natives 

 called him "god of the sword Tiranquera of iron."* 



CHAPTER XII. 



Movements which preceded the War with Candia, 

 Its commencement and obstinacy, with relation 

 of some of the events relating thereto. 



With the fortress of Batecalou Ceylan was almost en- 

 circled by our arms and garrisons, for those we held were 

 the best ports in the Island, being eight in number, a number 

 sufficient to secure it from whatever invasion the enemy 

 made, and so well placed as to command the whole of it, and 

 make the Portuguese masters of the entrances to it for the 

 commerce and navigation of those seas, and shut in the 

 King of Candia most effectually, leaving no open space. 

 We hemmed him in so that he was obliged to submit to our 

 orders to be able to exist, and the tribute which he paid then 

 appeared more like an indemnity than a feudal tax. 



The principal forts were Columbo, Negumbo, Manar, 

 Jafanapatan, Triqnilimale, Galle, Beligao, Calture, and 



* The original is : de suerte que los naturales le llmavan Bios de la 

 espada Tiranquera de Merro. What Tiranquera means I cannot find out. 

 Should be Tranquera, " bulwark," I think. 



