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Island, and to the others, when the news reached them there of the 

 bad entertainment that our people had given them, that they did not 

 desire to try their luck again under the banner of the tyrant. After 

 this victory our men returned to their fort. 



This news having reached the camp which the tyrant had in the 

 Four Corlas, fearing that they would be immediately attacked by our 

 forces, they abandoned everything and retired to Candea, for it 

 seems that they were advised of the communications that the General 

 carried on with those inhabitants, to get them to return to the 

 obedience from which they had rebelled through the industry of the 

 tyrant D. Joao, besides which several leading persons had already 

 been coming to treat of this matter with the General, which was 

 carried into effect, and he dispatched them together with the whole 

 army (having already learnt of the victories that our troops had 

 gained) to go and attack that fort, which they had already vacated, 

 and where there remained only what the soldiers could glean, and they 

 utterly dismantled it, in which they had labour enough, it being a 

 large stronghold, and of much workmanship. With these victories the 

 enemy was much discomfited, and our forces greatly elated. There 

 were present in these actions Filippe de Oliveira, Joao Serrao da 

 Cunha, Gaspar de Azevedo, Francisco de Macedo, Francisco Gomes 

 Leitao, son of the other of the same name, Antonio da Costa 

 Monteiro, and other Captains of companies and camps. 



Couto then turns from the affairs of Ceylon to deal with 

 other matters ; and takes up the thread of the Island's 

 history once more in chapter I. of book III., where he 

 describes the erection, in September-December, 1598, of a 

 stone fortress at Manicravare (Menikkadavara),* which the 

 General himself with his army occupied in January, 1599, 

 and whence he sent Salvador da Pereira da Silva with two 

 hundred Portuguese and two thousand Lascarins to engage 

 the combined forces of the kings of Kandy and Uva, 

 numbering five thousand men. In two fierce encounters 

 the Portuguese defeated the enemy with great loss.f 



The next chapter^ runs as follows :— • 



The King of Huva, ashamed at being defeated so many times, and 

 fearing the tyrant D. Joao, preferred to remain in the Seven Corlas 

 at a great distance from the forts in which our troops were, and from 



* See Bell's Beport on the Kegalla District, p. 31. — D. W. F. 



f Cf. Faria y Sousa, in Monthly Lit. Beg., III., p. 282.— D. W. F. 



\ See also Faria y Sousa, in Monthly Lit. Beg., III., p. 282.— D. W. F. 



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