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Martim Afonso de Sousa seeing that there was nothing else 

 for him to do there took leave of the king, and went over to 

 the opposite coast, and in a few days reached Malavar, where 

 he received the news that the pardos had not yet returned, 

 wherefore he set himself to wait for their return, sending out 

 his spies to look for them 1 . 



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Barros. 



Dec. IV., Bk. vtl, Chap. xxii. 



How Madune Pandar, king of Ceitavaca, with the aid of an 

 ■ armada of Malavar es besieged the king Boenegobago his 

 brother in the city of Cota, and Martim Afonso went to 

 succour him, and fought with the armada, and defeated 

 it. 



The affairs of Ceilam did not allow Martim Afonso de Sousa 

 much time in Cochij 2 , because Madune Pandar king of Ceita- 

 vaca persevering in his designs, and continuing in his preten- 

 sion to the rule of the whole island of Ceilam (as we have said 

 above 3 ), there happened to go in August of this year of 1536 

 seven pardos of Malavares to Columbo, at the time that Nuno 

 Freire de Andrade, alcaidemor and factor of that port, was in 

 the city of Cota with seven or eight Portuguese 4 . The Moors of 

 the pardos sent to request the king Boenegobago Pandar to send 



1 Shortly afterwards, having received news that the Moorish fleet was 

 at Mangalor, Martim Affonso went out with his armada, met the fleet at 

 sea, and totally defeated it, sinking some ships and driving others 

 aground with the loss of twelve hundred Moors. 



2 In the previous chapter Barros (or Lavanha) has described the defeat 

 of the Calicut armada under Cutiale Marcar by Martim Affonso de Sousa, 

 who afterwards went (in May 1536) to Cochin to " winter." 



3 The reference is to IV. n. vii. , where Barros says nothing of Maya- 

 dunne's designs, but where there is a long footnote, appended by the 

 " editor " of Barros's Fourth Decade, Joao Baptista Lavanha, embody- 

 ing information from Couto. This proves that the words in parentheses 

 are one of the interpolations of that impudent forger. 



4 The foregoing words, from " there happened " to "Portuguese," 

 have, it will be noticed, been " conveyed " bodily from Couto by La- 

 vanha. In fact, the whole narrative is stolen from Couto's Fifth Decade, 

 a word altered here and there, and this paraphrase palmed off by the 

 imposter as the work of the great Portuguese historian. 



