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Modeliars, and those who more than all others made war on us. In the 

 fort were left all the arms and spoils of the enemies, which were many. 



In this engagement were present Salvador Pereira da Silva, Field- 

 Captain, D. Manoel de Azevedo, Simao Pinhao, Antonio da Silva de 

 Alfonseca, Joao Teixeira de Meirelles, Joao Serrao da Cunha, Filippe 

 de Oliveira,* Simao Rabello, Gregoris da Costa de Sousa, one Foaof 

 Pereira, Pero de Abreu Modeliar, D. Henrique Modeliar, and many- 

 others who have not come to my notice, and D. Fernando Modeliar as 

 Captain-Major, all of whom performed doughty deeds. This took 

 place in the month of October past of 1597. 



In the next chapter Couto records further prowesses of 

 our hero's. He says : — 



Having gained these victories over this tyrant, D. Jeronymo de 

 Azevedo ordered the camp to return to the fort at Batugedere,| on 

 the frontiers of Dinavaca, the commander of which was Salvador 

 Pereira, and with him Simao Pinhao, in order to make all the war 

 they could in those parts on the tyrant, as well in the Seven as the Four 

 Corlas, where the enemy also endeavoured to make war so as to divert 

 the Captain -General from that which our troops were waging against 

 him in the parts about Mature, where there remained a sufficient force 

 to do this, on account of the parts where the General ordered this war 

 to be carried on being weak and of little power. And he had the 

 courage given him for this by a victory which he won over the native 

 people who were on our side, which was the cause of some vassals 

 rebelling in those parts of Seitavaca and Cota ; and these districts 

 which thus rebelled the tyrant endeavoured to support and defend, for 

 which purpose he ordered a fort to be erected on the confines of the 

 Four Corlas, in which he placed a large and good garrison of soldiers 

 and Modeliars. As soon as the General had advice of this he gave 

 orders that all the soldiers whom he had sent to those parts should 

 unite and fortify themselves in the village of Atanagale,§ where there 



* Afterwards so famous, especially as the conqueror of the kingdom of 

 Jaffna, of which he became captain, dying there in March, 1627. (See Reh. 

 de Ceylan, in C. A. S. Journal, XI.; and Ribeiro, book II., chapter I.)— D.W.F. 



f Foao, a contraction of fulano (from Arabic folano), means " such a one, 

 so-and-so," used when it is desired to conceal the true name. — D. W. F. 



X Near Ratnapura. The erection of this fort is described by Couto in 

 chapter VI. — D. W. F. 



§ This, with the passage following, contains the only reference by Couto 

 to Attanagalla. Bocarro {Deo, 13) also mentions the place once only, in 

 chapter CLXVIII., where we read of Domingos Carvalho's coming to the 

 camp of Luiz Gomes "by the way of Atanagale"; unless, indeed, the 

 " pagode ... called Tanagale," spoken of in chapters CXIII.-CXIV., where 

 the Captain- Maj or Manuel Cesar, in December, 1616, fortified himself with 

 "a stockade of varichas" be the same, as I suspect. Valentyn, in his 

 Ceylon, mentions Attanagalla ; and Ryklof van Groens, writing in 1675 



