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encountered them in the village of Sofragao ; and after having had a 

 very obstinate rencounter with them our men drove them from the 

 field, on which they left many dead ; and thus Simao Pinhao had time 

 to visit the fortresses of Corvite and Batugedere, into which had 

 retired those who had been operating in the regions of Dinavaca, as 

 we have said, whom he provided with everything in plenty. 



From there the General ordered Pinhao to proceed to the neigh- 

 bouring territories of Malvana, where the rebels and the principal 

 leaders of that rising already were. And the General himself also 

 set out by another route, so that they had them in the midst, and 

 surrounded them in such a manner that as they had no way of escape 

 they surrendered and submitted, and the General ordered that those 

 who had been the heads of that rising should have theirs cut off f* 

 and afterwards he proceeded little by little, executing the most guilty, 

 whereby he entirely extinguished that conflagration which had been 

 consuming the land.f The tyrant went on putting all his strength 

 into the Corlas, in order to carry out what he intended against the 

 General and divert him from his purpose ; wherefore he was obliged 

 a second time to send the camp against that enemy, and in many 

 rencounters that they had there with his people our troops were 

 always victorious, and returned with many captives and prizes. Our 

 camp, which was quartered in the stockade of Balitote, was also at this 

 time not idle, for the King of Huva sent to attack it with more than 

 fiix thousand men ; but the Captain Salvador Pereira, who had already 

 been advised thereof, before he couid arrive, sent the native Lascarins 

 out of the stockades to lie in ambush in the forests, in order, when 

 they attacked, to fall on their rear, and rout them, of which they 

 were afraid, and for this reason would not invest the stockade, but 

 remained ten days near it, attacking it by skirmishes, from which they 

 always retired more or less wounded. 



And that the tyrant of Candea might leave nothing unattacked in 

 order to divert and embarrass the General, he ordered at the same 

 time the stockade of Manicravare to be attacked by a captain of four 

 thousand men, which they did with great determination ; and for the 

 space of half a day they had a great skirmish of harquebus fire with 

 our troops, by which many were left stretched on the field ; and our 

 men entertained them so badly, that the same day they retired, leaving 

 the field strewn with many mangled corpses. 



The King of Huva, who was near our fort of Balitote, seeing that 

 he was wasting time to no purpose, and that he was in risk of being 

 attacked and defeated by our forces, retired, because he knew also that 

 the General was sending succour to that stockade ; and from there he 

 proceeded to the regions of Chilao, leaving at a league's distance from 



* The original has this play upon words. — D. W. F. 



t Much is here again left to thp imagination by the historian. — D. W. F. 



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