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with a little biscuit" and their arms, and said to his men 1 :— * 

 " You see well, brave soldiers and comrades mine, the urgent 

 advice that we have received ; wherefore another instant 

 determination is necessary to save our lives ; and nothing 

 better has suggested itself to me than this, to rid ourselves of 

 encumbrances, and march with our arms in our hands in the 

 direction of Triquinimalle 2 , in order thence to proceed to 

 Cota, where we have a friendly king 3 , because if we return 

 to the fleet I fear we may find the roads occupied, and that all 

 will be our enemies, while in the other direction we have a king 

 who is sure to receive us and entertain us very well ; wherefore 

 remember, that the life of each one lies in the defence of his 

 own arms and hands (apart from those of God, which are 

 those that must defend and deliver us in this journey) ; where- 

 fore, follow me ;" and taking his matchlock on his shoulder he 

 proceeded to march out of the city. 



The king of Candea, who continued to dissemble, waiting 

 for them in order, after they had been received and dispersed, 

 to carry out on them the treachery, as soon as he had word of 

 the determinatioD of Antonio Moniz Barreto, and of what he 

 had done, knew well that he had been warned, and suspecting 

 that it was by the friars at once ordered them to be seized, and 

 in great haste dispatched some modeliares with a large force to 

 go after our people, which they did ; and making haste they 

 encountered them already a good distance beyond the city ; 

 and attacking them with great determination at several 

 points, Antonio Moniz Barreto did not relinquish his march 

 at the same pace at which he had been going, placing himself 

 in the rearguard for the better security of his men ; giving 

 orders for the matchlocks to be discharged in such fashion 

 that the firing never ceased, so that they might thus proceed 

 while keeping the enemy at bay, as they did. And so they 

 went marching the whole day with much difficulty, not having 

 time to rest for a moment, or to eat, only munching the dry 

 biscuit, and fighting. As soon as night fell they had a little 

 respite, and went on continually marching, but with less 

 trouble ; for although the enemy continued to pursue them it 

 was more slackly ; but as soon as it dawned they once more 



1 This address, of course, is imaginary. Jacinto Freire de Andrade, 

 in his Vida de D. Jodo de Castro, invents a totally different one. 



2 There is a palpable error here ; but what name should take the 

 place of " Triquinimalle " I cannot say (see infra, p. 130, note 2 ). 



3 Freire de Andrade (op. cit.) has " the king of Ceitavaca, a faithful 

 friend of the state's " ! (Previously he speaks of " Madune, king of 

 Cotta " !) 



