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that the affairs of Cambaia still occupied us 1 , fitted 

 out for him vessels, beside those that he had ; and with the 

 help of other wealthy Moors, who wished to injure the Portu- 

 guese, he got together an armada of forty-seven rowing vessels, 

 in order to go and help Madune Pandar against his brother the 

 king of Ceilam. With this king the Portuguese were on 

 terms of great friendship, and he paid the king of Portugal the 

 tribute that we have already described in the events of the 

 time of Lopo Soarez, when he governed India, and built a 

 fortress in that island. And as Madune Pandar saw that 

 besides the great power that his brother had, our friendship 

 afforded him great help, because in Columbo, where he resided 2 , 

 the Portuguese always had their factory for the cinnamon 

 that came from that island, and moreover knew of the war 

 that we had with the king of Calecut, and that Pate Marcar 

 was at that time going about in force, he sent word to him 

 secretly to help him against his brother ; and the compact that 

 they made was, that he desired no more than to remain with 

 the title of king, and free from giving cinnamon to the Portu- 

 guese ; and that he would give him all his brother's treasure, 

 which was reported to be very great. This obliged the king 

 of Calecut to send thither Pate Marcar with the fleet of forty- 

 seven 3 sail of which we have spoken, in which he carried more 

 than two thousand men 4 , with a great number of pieces of 

 artillery, so well prepared in every way, and with such skilful 

 and brave men, that the Turks of the sea of the Levant did not 

 approach them in discipline and fighting spirit. 



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At this time Martim Afonso de Sousa, captain- major of the 

 sea, was cruising with forty sail guarding the coast of Malavar. 

 And as the order of guarding it is to make a run to the north 

 as far as Baticala, and another to the south as far as Coulam, 

 having made a run to the north, when he returned, he learnt 

 that Pate Marcar had sallied forth from Panane with his 

 armada, of which he was captain-major, and had his brother 

 Cutiale Marcar as second in command, and as third AH Abra- 

 hem, a valiant captain of the king of Calecut's, a native of 

 Panane. 



Pate Marcar going on captured a vessel of ours that 



was coming from Ceilam with the cargo of cinnamon for the 



1 Rather, the affairs of Diu (see Whiteway, op. cit., chap. xi.). 



2 This is doubtless one of Lavanha's blunders. The king, of course, 

 resided at Cota. 



3 Couto says fifty-one. Zmuddm says forty-two galleys. 



4 Couto, as we have seen, says eight thousand. 



