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Manuel in the past year of 1518 had ordered to go and build 

 this fortress with as many as eight hundred men, among whom 

 were many artizans skilled in this work ; which task having 

 been accomplished, he was to remain with the troops necessary 

 for its defence, and revenue officials, and the rest were to go 

 to other fortresses. And it happened that after the king had 

 come to this determination there arrived Lopo de Villalobos, 

 whom Lopo Soarez dispatched to this kingdom when he left 

 the strait (as we have described above 1 ), by whom he wrote 

 to the king that as soon as he reached India he intended to go 

 and build this fortress of Ceilam. Nevertheless in the year 

 1519 the king dispatched him to go and serve in the captaincy 

 there 2 , and his brother Antonio de Brito who was out there 3 

 was to be alcaide mor^ ; and as factor Andre Rodriguez de 

 Beja, and as clerks Joam Rabello and Gaspar Daraujo 5 

 nicknamed Benimagre, both of them his grooms of the bed- 

 chamber. On Lopo de Brito's arrival in India this fortress 

 was handed over to him by Dom Joam da Silveira 6 , who was 

 stationed in it as captain. And as he (Lopo de Brito) brought 

 four hundred men, among whom were many stone-masons and 

 carpenters, and it was in such a condition that it seemed about 

 to fall to the ground, being made of stone and clay, Lopo de 



1 The reference is to III. i. vi. It was on 10 September 1517 that 

 Lopo Soares dispatched Lopo de Villalobos from Kalhat for Portugal 

 with letters to King Manuel relating the result of his expedition to the 

 mouth of the Red Sea. When he reached Lisbon, I do not know. 



2 In III. in. ix. Barros names him as one of the captains in the fleet of 

 1519 under Jorge de Albuquerque, but does not mention his appoint- 

 ment. Castanheda (V. xv.) and Correa (ii. 574) both do so, how- 

 ever. 



3 When he came to India, and what position he occupied, I cannot 

 find. 



4 Chief magistrate. 



5 Of these three men I can find no previous mention. J oao Rabello , 

 however, is spoken of by Barros in III. ix. viii. as factor of Calicut in 

 1525. 



6 I cannot find when Lopo de Brito arrived in India, but it was doubt- 

 less before the end of 1519. Correa alone (ii. 623) gives the date of his 

 leaving Goa for Ceylon, viz., March 1520, which may be right, but he 

 cannot be trusted. Castanheda (V. xxi.) says that his brother Antonio 

 de Brito accompanied him as captain-major of the sea ; while Correa 

 (ii. 624) states that the governor dispatched Antonio de Brito, " chief 

 huntsman," and Rafael Perestrello to accompany Lopo de Brito as far 

 as Ceylon, and then to go with Jorge de Brito to Pacem and load pepper 

 for Bengal. 



