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kingdom from him by war, and once more to avail himself of 

 the Qamorim, dispatching in August past [1637] ambassadors 

 with a sum of money and many jewels as a present to the 

 Qamorim, sending to ask him for a large armada, for which he 

 sent the expenses, in order to aid him in that enterprise, 

 offering him some sea-ports in that island. 



The Qamorim received these ambassadors favourably, and 

 forthwith sent to all the ports of his kingdom to hire all the 

 vessels there were ; and he chose for that expedition three 

 leading Moors, called Paichimarca (whom some wrongly call 

 Patemarca) and his brother Cunhalemarca 1 , both natives of 

 Cochim, born and brought up among the Portuguese 2 ; and the 

 other was Aly Abrahem 3 . The Qamorim ordered pay to be 

 issued to troops throughout the kingdom, and mustered 

 eight thousand men to make this expedition, giving orders that 

 all the vessels should go and unite at Panane 4 , where Paichi- 

 marca lived. The armada proceeded to get ready in the 

 rivers, and as soon as the vessels were fit to leave they went 

 to Panane 5 



Martim Afonso de Sousa received this mes- 

 sage 6 in Chale 7 , and making haste arrived at Cochim, where he 

 disembarked to arrange some matters for proceeding to Ceilao 

 in search of the enemy, having already had advice of the route 



they had taken 



******* 



...... Martim Afonso arrived at CapeComori, where 



he had speech of some boats that he found there, and learnt 

 that the enemy were making their way inside in order to pass 

 the shoals of Manar 



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1 Barros (or Lavanha) wrongly calls him Cutiale (see p. 99 infra). His 

 name was in reality Kufiji 'Ali. 



2 Couto does not say why they became enemies of their former 

 friends. 



3 See supra, p. 75. 



4 Ponani, between Cochin and Calicut. 



5 To get something like a consecutive narrative, the extracts from 

 Barros-Lavanha on pp. 92-4 and 95-8 should be combined with those 

 from Couto on pp. 90-2 and 94-5. 



6 From the captain of Cochin, to say that the Moorish fleet had set 

 out from Ponani. 



7 An old port of Malabar, on the south side of the Beypur river (see 

 Hob. -Job. 8.v. " Chalia "). 



