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that stockade a body of a thousand men, most of them with firelock r 

 in a stockade which he made in a pass, so that, when the people of the 

 neighbouring villages had assembled there, they might close against 

 our troops the entrances into those parts, because they feared them 

 from all sides. The G-eneral having been advised of this sent to 

 attack them a Captain with fifty Portuguese and three hundred 

 Lascarins, who put them to rout, entering their stockade, with the 

 death of many. After this affair the King of Huva at once retired 

 from the regions of Chilao, whither he had proceeded, both because 

 there also he had been badly received by our people, and because he 

 feared that the General might send another force against him. 



The tyrant of Candea seeing how badly all his stratagems succeeded, 

 and how many men he had lost in those engagements, attributed all 

 to the cowardice of the King of Huva, wherefore he commanded him 

 to return to Candea ; and he gave his office, which was that of Captain- 

 G-eneral of the field, to a Prince of the blood of the ancient kings,* a 

 youth held to be intrepid, who, wishing to show the tyrant that he 

 had not been mistaken in that selection, at once set out with all the 

 camp and men that he of Huva had had against the fortress of 

 Balitote, which the General had already succoured with men and 

 munitions, which he attacked with several firelock skirmishes. And 

 Salvador Pereira, its Captain, seeing that the enemy dared not invest 

 it, sallied forth on him with a body of men, and attacked him with 

 such fury, that in a short space of time he put him to rout with the 

 death of more than a hundred, this Prince being as unfortunate, in 

 the first attack that he made, as the King of Huva, since he hid 

 himself in the forests as fearful as the other ; and his men who escaped, 

 such was their fear, that they only stopped on reaching Candea. By 

 this the Corlas were cleared, the Prince alone remaining on their 

 confines, two leagues from our camp, without daring to go before 

 the tyrant. This being known to those of the stockade of Balitote, 

 they sallied forth from it at night in good order, and in the daylight 

 watch fell upon him with such an uproar, that they put him to flight, 

 and forced him once more to take refuge in the forests, and continued 

 pursuing him, and burning many villages, towns, and pagodes: by which 

 means the inhabitants of the Corlas, being undeceived of the idea that 

 the tyrant could defend them, submitted themselves to obedience. 



The references to Simao Pinhao in the above chapter are 

 the last that Couto makes. In the first chapter of book V. of 

 this Decade he once more (and for the last time, except for 

 some brief references) treats of events in Ceylon (from Sep- 

 tember, 1599, to the wet season or " winter " of 1600) ; bnt, 



* I am unable to identify this prince. — D. W. F. 



