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Garcia de Sousa", who had been there since the expedition he 

 made when he went to supply the ships of Ruy Soarez 1 : and 

 the cause of his not bringing cinnamon was that the king of 

 the country was very ill 2 , and the Moors had incited the hea- 

 then to hatred of us. And though Nuno Vaz might have done 

 them harm, he bore an order from the viceroy that he should 

 not levy war, by reason of the peace that his son Dom Loureneo 

 had agreed to, the witness of which was the padram that he 

 left standing in the town of Columbo, which Nuno Vaz saw 3 . 



1 Who had arrived at Cape Comorin after the south-west monsoon 

 had burst, and was in danger of losing his ship. 



2 Barros only records this fact. 



3 Here Barros flatly contradicts his assertion in I. x. v. (pp. 22, 24) 

 that Galle was the port at which the padrdo was erected. 



