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Pate Marcar, as he intended to cross over from there to the 

 island of Ceilam, which lay in front, set about cleaning his 

 foists, and those that he had already careened with their sterns 

 on shore and the prows in the sea, between which ran a chain 

 of shoals along the thumb that we have figured, in such man- 

 ner that they could not be reached from the sea outside except 

 by a channel near the town, and he was lodged on land in a 

 palm -grove that ran along the thumb opposite to the pagode 

 of Ramanacor, and had a decorated tent and the pomp of a 

 prince in his array al, in which he had seven thousand men, 

 because as he was going for that business of placing Madune 

 Pandar in possession of the kingdom of Ceilam, he had mus- 

 tered all the Moors that lived on that coast, which has a great 

 swarm of them, by reason of the fishery of seed-pearl, as we 

 have said above. 



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Among the spoils of this battle was captured an umbrella, 

 which the Camorij was sending to Madune, which Martim 

 Af onso sent as a present to the king of Cochij by Miguel de Aiala , 

 whom he ordered to go on from Cochij to Dio with letters for 

 the governor 1 , in which he gave him an account of that victory. 

 Miguel de Aiala arrived at Cochij , and presented the king with 

 the umbrella, which he valued greatly, and much more the 

 news of the victory, which was as much rejoiced over in that 

 city as lamented in Malavar. . 



Dec. IV., Bk. vni., Chap. xiv. 



Of other victories that Martim A f onso de Sousa obtained 

 on the coast of Malavar. 



Victorious Martim Afonso de Sousa set out from that town 

 of Beadala, and came to Tutucurij, where was stationed the 

 Portuguese factor of the fishery of seed-pearl, and from there 

 he sent to Cochij the greater part of the vessels that he had 



1 Nuno da Cunha had left Goa for Diu in view of an anticipated siege 

 of the latter place by the Turks. 



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