NO. 59. — 1907.] PORTUGUESE IN CEYLON. 



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to the first of the said island of Qeillam where you shall make 

 landfall, and you shall also cause to be written down the altitudes 

 of all the countries and islands to which you shall come. 



He ***** * 



Item : When you shall come to Qeillam, 6 if it please God, 

 you shall find out if any of our people are there or fortress 

 or ships, for we believe that you will there find tidings of our 

 people and fleets. And after you have found out all about this 

 and have informed yourself very thoroughly of the affairs of this 

 island of Qeillam, as you have above been ordered to do in the 

 case of other countries that you may discover, you shall then 

 leave there and take your course in quest of Mallaca, endeavour- 

 ing to obtain pilots there in Ceyllam 7 And if there in 



Quejllam 8 you find the viceroy, and he shall require you for the 

 defence of any fortress and of our people who may be in extreme 

 need, and that by your help matters should be remedied, in that 

 case you shall do only what he shall require of and command you 

 in our name, and by this we command our said viceroy or captain- 

 major of the territories of Jmdia 9 that in no other matter do 

 they occupy you or detain you, except in the above, because we 

 think it well to send you thus to discover. 



1 These were first printed in Annaes Maritimas e Coloniaes, 3 ser. 

 (1843), pte. nao off. 479-92. They are also printed in Alguns Docu- 

 mentos 184-97, and in Cartas de Aff. de Albuquerque ii. 403-19. I trans- 

 late from the text in the former, and note below any variations in the 

 text of the latter, 



2 Any islands near Sam Lourenco (Madagascar) that he should 

 hear of. 



3 " Ceillam " in Cartas. 



4 "Candaluz" in Cartas. It is Kinalos in Malosmadulu Atol. In 

 documents and maps of the 16th century " Camdicall " (see supra, 

 B 2) and " Camdaluz" are associated as being two of the best known 

 islands of the Maldive archipelago. 



5 i{ Maldiva " here means the island of Male (see supra, B 2). 



6 Cartas has " Collam." 



7 " Ceillam " in Cartas. 



8 " Queillam " in Cartas. 



9 " Imdia " in Cartas. 



C 3. 



Barros II. in. i. 



[September-October (?) 1508.] 



While thus giving final orders in the matters of this 



fleet against the Rooms 1 and the cargo of spicery for the ships 

 that had to come that year to this kingdom, as cinnamon was 

 wanting for them, he [the viceroy] sent Nuno Vaz Pereira 2 in 

 the ship Sancto Spirito 3 to the island of Ceilam to bring it,' who 

 had come from Sofala in the ships of the armada of Jorge de Mello, 

 handing over the fortress to Vasco Gomez Dabreu, as mentioned 



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