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Decade III.. Bk. m., Chap. i. 



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 Diogo Lopez having left Mocambique arrived on the 



8th of September at Goa, where he stayed only a few days, 

 because of having news that Lopo Soarez was on the way to go 

 to Ceilam, thinking that he might catch him before he left for 



there because his intention was (as we have said) to 



catch Lopo Soarez before he left Cochij to go to Ceilam, and 

 stop him from that expedition, the fortress that he was 

 going to build not being a thing of such importance at 

 that time as other things which had been more strongly 

 commended to him by the king in the instructions that he 

 carried, for which he needed the men and ships that Lopo 

 Soarez had taken for that work. But the weather was such, 

 that it detained him nine days at Baticala 1 , whence he sent a 

 message to Lopo Soarez simply to stay him ; and this message 

 of his reached Cochij one afternoon, on the day in the morning 

 of which Lopo Soarez had left. And although by the order 

 of Diogo Lopez this message went no further, on the way Lopo 

 Soarez had advice of the arrival of Diogo Lopez, over which 

 he dissembled, and went forward with his purpose, which he 

 carried out (as we have said) 



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Dec. III., Bk. in., Chap. vii. 



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They 2 breed cattle, sheep and ewes ; but not as 



much as to enable them to do without the butters that come 

 to them from Ceilam 3 and other parts, in which much profit 

 is made 



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Dec. III., Bk. rv., Chap. vi. 



Of what Lopo de Brito, captain of the fortress of Ceilam, 



underwent with the people of the country. 

 At this same time the captain of the fortress of Ceilam was 

 Lopo de Brito, son of Joam de Brito 4 , whom the king Dom 



1 Bhatkal on the coast of Kanara (see Hob. -Job. s.v. " Batcul "). 



2 The inhabitants of the Maldives, of which island Barros gives a 

 description in this chapter. 3 Cf. III. n. i. (p. 35, note 3 ). 



4 Barros mentions the father in order to distinguish this man from 

 another Lopo de Brito. who. like his brother Jorge de Brito, was one of 

 Albuquerque's captains. I do not know if this man had been in India 

 before. 



