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above. 4 By which journey he got nothing, only there came 

 with him Garcia de Sousa, who had been there since the expedition 

 he made when he went to supply the ship of Ruy Soarez : 5 and 

 the cause of his not bringing cinnamon was that the king of the 

 country was very ill, 6 and the Moors had incited the heathen 

 to hatred of us. 7 And though Nuno Vaz might have done them 

 harm, he bore an order from the viceroy that he should not levy 

 war by reason of the peace that his son Dom Lourenco had agreed 

 to, the witness of which was the padramth.a,t he left standing in the 

 town 8 of Columbo, 9 which Nuno Vaz saw. 10 



1 The (< Rooms " are Turks (see Hobson-Jobson s.v.), and the fleet 

 referred to was that intended to avenge the death of D. Louren£o 

 de Almeida in his engagement with the Diu and Egyptian fleets off 

 Chaul in January 1508. 

 . 2 See supra, B 2, B 9. 



3 See supra, B 2. 



4 In liv. i. cap. ii. of this Decade. 



5 As related a few pages before. In May 1508 the commendador Ruy 

 Soares had arrived from Portugal off Cape Comorin with his ship in a 

 very unseaworthy condition ; and the viceroy on learning this sent 

 Garcia de Sousa in a caravel with anchors, cables, &c, to safeguard the 

 ship, which lay exposed to the full force of the south-west monsoon. 

 By " there " I think Barros means only " in that part " {i.e., in the 

 south), for I cannot find that Garcia de Sousa went to Ceylon. 



6 This statement is significant, in view of the fact that it was in 

 this year that Dharma Parakrama Bahu began his reign (see Bell's 

 Rep. on Kegalla Dist. 86). 



7 Gf. infra, C 4. 



8 Port, lugar, lit. "place." It was applied to an unfortified town or 

 village, in contradistinction to cidade. 



9 Gf. B 9, supra, where Barros states that Galle was the place where 

 Dom Lourenco erected the padrdo. 



10 Gf. infra, C 5. 



C 4. 



Castanheda ii. 301. 



[November 1508.] 



And whilst the ships that had to go to Portugal were 



loading there arrived Nuno Vaz Pereyra in the ship Santo Sprito, 

 who had been to the island of Ceilao to seek the tribute 1 which 

 Dom Lourenco Dalmeida had agreed with the king of that island 

 that he was to pay to the king of Portugal: and he found no tribute, 

 nor was he able to make a purchase, 2 which the king was opposed 

 to, through the instigation of some Moors of Calicut who were 

 there. 



1 Gf. supra, C 3. 



* Gf. supra , C 1. 



