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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XIX. 



B 10. 



Correa i. 643, 644, 646. 



[? August 1506.] 



The work of the fortress [of Cochin] having been completed, 1 

 and the armada having also made an end of repairing, the viceroy, 

 having had information of the many ships that traversed the 

 islands of Maldiva to Meca, which came from Pegu, and Siam, and 

 Ben gala, resolved to send Dom Lourengo with the armada, to see 

 what like were the islands, and if the ships that passed could be 

 captured, and allotted to him two ships and two caravels, a galley, 

 and a brigantine that had been recently built. 2 



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The viceroy ordered Dom Lourengo to set sail in a good ship, 

 the captain of which was Lopo Cabral, and in the other Manuel 

 Telles, and Gonealo de Paiva and Pero Rafael in caravels, and 

 Andre da Silveira in the galley, and Andre Galo in a brigantine 

 that had been recently built ; 8 and in this fleet gentlemen and 

 armed men, as many as three hundred men well equipped, and 

 the armada provided with all that was needed, which left Cochym 

 on the 1st of August, 4 carrying good pilots supplied by the king 

 of Cochym. 



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Having set sail from Cochym Dom Lourengo went traversing 

 the islands of Maldiva ; 6 and because the pilots did not take 

 good heed to avoid the currents, they sailed for eighteen days 

 without seeing the islands, and made landfall at Ceylao, whither 

 the currents took them, and by good luck came to land in the 

 principal port of the island, called Columbo, which Dom Lou- 

 rengo entered with his armada, and anchored where were many 

 ships, which were loading cinnamon and very small elephants, 

 in which there is a great trade to all parts, especially to Cambaya, 

 many being produced in this island, and in this port they were also 

 loading fresh coconuts and dried ones from which they extract 

 oil, and much arecanut, all of which fetches high prices in Cam- 

 baya ; and were also loading masts and yards and timber, which 

 they were taking to sell in Ormuz with cinnamon, because this 

 island of Ceylao has good wood in great abundance. 6 On entering 

 Dom Lourengo ordered the brigantine to overhaul all the ships, 

 to see what was in them and whence they were, which found 

 three large ships of Calecut with cinnamon and elephants, and 

 other ships of the said Cambaya. All the ships were without 

 people, because all had fled on shore on seeing Dom Lourengo 

 entering. Then Dom Lourengo sent his men in the boats to haul 

 up the anchors of the ships of Calecut, and brought them amidst 

 our ships. 



The Moors of these ships had told the king of Ceylao great 

 evils of us, that we went about the sea robbing and murdering, 

 and that whatever we did not want, in order that it" might be of 



