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and twelve soldiers, and ordered them to go by way of 

 Negumbo 1 , so as to avoid the territories of Madune. 



The ambassadors having left with our people, they went 

 pursuing their journey, not escaping some conflicts with forces 

 of Madune' s, in which our folk ran great risk and danger, but 

 God delivered them from all by the valour of their arms, and 

 thus with great trouble they reached Candea. The king 

 received them very well, and ordered the friars to be lodged in 

 the same hermitage that the former ones had built 2 , which was 

 still standing, and the French captain and his soldiers near to 

 them, ordering all necessaries to be given to them. The 

 friars began to make some Christians, thinking' that the 

 king also had a mind thereto, which he had not, as he was 

 wicked and perverse, and fear made him pretend it, so long 

 as he did not know what was passing between Dom Jorge 

 de Crasto and Madune, whom he favoured in secret ; and 

 so he took such care of and had such an eye on the French 

 captain and the friars, that he did not allow them to go 

 beyond a certain limit, keeping spies in Ceitavaca, in order 

 to be advised each day of all that passed there. 



Dec. VI., Bk. vm., Chap. vii. 



Of how the king of Cota and Dom Jorge de Crasto set out 

 for Ceitavaca : and of the sieges of the forts that they 

 met with on this march : and of how they took them, 

 and routed Madune, and captured from him the city of 

 Ceitavaca. 



After the king of Cota had collected his forces and arranged 

 for the things necessary for the expedition, he set out on the 

 march, Dom Jorge de Crasto going in the van with all the 

 Portuguese, and the king with five thousand men in the rear- 

 guard 3 . Thus they marched the whole of the day until they 

 reached a very large tranqueira, on a pass that lay between the 



1 This place here makes its first appearance. 



2 See supra, p. 125. 



3 The R&javaliya (78) briefly records the events described in this 

 chapter, in a couple of paragraphs that are quite out of their propei 

 order. It also tells us that they occurred after Bhuvaneka Bahu had 

 reigned for twenty years, whereas they actually took place sixteen years 

 after the king's accession. 



