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



C 6. 



Correct, ii. 42. 



[December (?) 1509.] 



And all having thus been done, and the ships having been 

 repaired as much as was needed, having been dispatched by the 

 king [of Pedir in Sumatra] in good peace, he [Diogo Lopes de 

 Sequeira] set sail, and with fair weather made landfall at the 

 island of Ceilao in the port of Columbo, 1 where he learnt that a 

 short time previously there had left there the ships that took the 

 cinnamon 2 for the cargo of the marshal, 3 and that the viceroy 

 had left for the kingdom, 4 and Afonso d'Alboquerque governed, 

 with whom he continued on bad terms, through taking the part 

 of the viceroy in their disputes. 5 Fearing that on this account 

 Afonso d'Alboquerque would give him a bad dispatch and cause 

 him various annoyances, in great haste he discharged the ship of 

 Jeronymo Teixeira, which was a better sailer than his, and careened 

 her and repaired her very thoroughly in every part that required 

 it, and loaded her with all that he had brought, which was worth 

 a great deal, and embarked in her and gave his ship to Jeronymo 

 Teixeira, that he should go with the other ships to the governor, 

 but he was unwilling to do so, and went with him to the 



kingdom ; 6 And the ships having been fitted out, he set 



sail with them from Ceylao, and came to Coulao, whence he set 

 his course for Portugal 



1 Both Castanheda and Barros say that the first landfall made by 

 Diogo Lopes after leaving Sumatra was at Travancor, which they de- 

 scribe as a port near Cape Comorin. According to the Com. of Af. Dalb 

 (ii. 74), however, the port was Caecoulao (Kayankulam, a little to the 

 north of Quilon) ; while Correa, it will be seen, states that from Ceylon 

 Diogo Lopes went to Quilon, and thence to Portugal. 



2 I have no means of substantiating or controverting this statement. 

 We have seen above (C 3 and C 4) that in the previous year no cinnamon 

 was obtainable from Ceylon, and the case may have been the same this 

 year, Correa being quite capable of inventing " facts " on occasion. 



3 D. Fernando Coutinho, marshal of Portugal, who had been sent 

 out by the king to compel D. Francisco de Almeida to hand over the 

 chief authority to Affonso de Albuquerque, whom the viceroy had im- 

 prisoned. The marshal lost his life in the attack on Calecut in January 

 1510. Regarding the cargo of his ships see Com. of Af. Dalb. ii. 49, 53 

 (of. C 7, note 2 , below). 



4 He sailed from Cananor on 1 December 1509, and just three 

 months later was killed by Hottentots in the Aguada de Saldanha 

 (Table Bay). 



5 See Com. of Af. Dalb. ii. 



6 This is not borne out by the statements of other writers. In fact 

 Castanheda ii. cap. vii. tells us that in February 1510 Albuquerque 

 " having set sail from Cananor learnt at Mount Deli that Francisco de 

 Sousa, Jeronimo Teixeira, Jorge da Cunha, and Luis Coutinho intended 

 to desert him and go off, induced by Jeronimo Teixeyra that they 

 should all go with an armada beyond Ceylao , because there they would 

 load prizes, as he knew from the time when he went to Malaca with 

 Diogo Lopez de Sequeyra, and that from there without returning to 

 India they should e;o to Portugal, as did Diogo Lopez." 



