JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. XX. 



BARROS. 

 DECADE III. 

 1515-1526 a.d. 



Portuguese Governors of India. — Lopo Soares de Albergaria, 

 governor, September 1515 to September 1518 ; Diogo Lopes 

 de Sequeira, governor, September 1518 to January 1522 ; D. 

 Duarte de Menezes, governor, January 1522 to September 

 1524 ; D. Vasco da Gama, viceroy, September to December 

 1524 ; D. Henrique de Menezes, governor, January 1525 to 

 February 1526. 



Sinhalese Rulers in Ceylon. — Vijaya Bahu VII., 1505-34 

 (Dondra and Kotte) ; Dharma Parakrama Bahu IX., 1508-27 

 (Kotte). 



Portuguese Captains of Columbo. — D. Joao da Silveira, 

 1518-20 (?) ; Lopo de Brito, 1520(?)-2 ; Fernao Gomes de 

 Lemos, 1522-4. 



The chief events in connection with the history of Ceylon 

 described in this Decade are the erection of a fort at Columbo 

 in 1518 by Lopo Soares de Albergaria ; the subsequent siege 

 (in 1620) by the Sinhalese of that fort, which was defended 

 against them by the captain Joao de Brito ; and its demolition 

 by royal command in 1524. In bk. n. chap. i. Barros gives 

 a learned dissertation on Ceylon as known to the ancients, and 

 a succinct description of the island as it was in the middle of 

 the sixteenth century. 



Dec. III.,Bk. i., Chap. x. 



And he 1 also sent Antonio de Saldanha [in April 



1518] with a fleet of six sail to the coast of Arabia, as the king 

 Dom Manuel had commanded ; and he did not take as many 

 rowing vessels as he had intended to take, because Lopo Soarez 



1 The governor Lopo Soares. 



