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And returning to Martim Afonso de Sousa, who was on his 

 way to Ceilao, in a few days he arrived with all his armada 

 at the port of Cohimbo , and there disembarked, and with all 

 his troops arranged in order marched for Cota, in order to have 

 an interview with that king, who received him with great 

 honour ; finding him already relieved of anxiety and at peace 

 with his brother ; because as soon as he learnt of the defeat of 

 Paichi Marc a, and of the arrival of our armada at Columbo, he 

 sent to ask his brother for terms of peace, which he granted 

 him, because he was a good-natured man. For which the king 

 of Cota gave thanks to Martim Afonso de Sousa, appreciating 

 greatly the good faith that the Portuguese kept with him, and 

 how they hastened to help him in his troubles. Martim 

 Afonso de Sousa, seeing that there was nothing for him to do 

 there, treated with the king regarding his coming, and asked 

 him for a loan towards the expenses of the armada and the pay 

 of the soldiers (because he had sent and offered all this). The 

 king granted him this with great alacrity, commanding to 

 givefhim forty-five thousand cruzados, which were charged 

 as a loan upon the factor of Columbo, in whose receipt-book 

 we saw this money : and both this and much other that 

 he afterwards lent was repaid to him very badly, and even 

 today 1 the greater part is owing to him (the king of Portugal 

 urging strongly upon his governors to make a very prompt 

 payment to him 2 ). Martim Afonso de Sousa took leave of the 

 king, who gave stuffs and trinkets both to him and to all the 

 captains, and making sail he returned to Cochim 



Barros. 



Dec. IV., Bk. vih., Chap. xiii. 



How Martim Afonso de Sousa with four hundred Portuguese 

 fought Pate Mar car, who was on land with four thousand 

 fighting men, and conquered and defeated him, and captured 

 his armada, with the death of many Moors. 



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Whilst Martim Afonso had gone to Cochij to refit, Pate 

 Marcar, thinking that it was by reason of the bad weather, or 



1 Circa 1597. 



2 See infra, pp. 165-7. 



