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The viceroy answered him that he had had that strictly en- 

 joined upon him, and that the first thing to engage his atten- 

 tion would be that ; and in return for this he asked him for a 

 loan of two hundred thousand parddos, from which the king 

 excused himself, telling him that there had been great expense 

 on account of the wars, and that shortly before he had spent 

 more than seventy thousand parddos with Dom Jorge de 

 Crasto, The viceroy was not very pleased ; and taking leave 

 of him embarked ; and the king gave him to send to the 

 queen 1 by those ships the following pieces [of jewelry] : — A 

 large gold collar with pearls and rubies and three crosses of 

 precious stones at the lower part and a large pearl below ; 

 another collar with rubies, one large one in the middle ; an- 

 other gold collar with several rubies and catseyes, and in the 

 middle a large catseye surrounded by rubies ; three bracelets 

 of gold and precious stones ; a large ring with a catseye sur- 

 rounded by rubies ; a beautiful catseye unset : all of which 

 was given in charge of the factor of the fleet, and went that 

 year to the kingdom. The viceroy also took his trinkets ; 

 and before setting sail, there came to see him a son of 

 Madune's 2 the king of Ceitavaca, and what passed with the 

 viceroy is not known. 



The king of Cota, seeing how the viceroy left him displeased, 

 sent after him one Bragmane Pandito 3 with fifteen thousand 

 parddos, which he sent him as a present 4 



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Dom Alvaro de Tayde da Gama, captain of the galleon 

 Sao Joao, who, made landfall at Pegu, after taking in water 

 and provisions, set sail for India, and came to land at the 

 Point of Gale, where he cast anchor, it being the beginning of 

 November, and there he disembarked in order to have his 

 sick cured, because there were Portuguese there and friars of 

 St. Francis with a small house 5 . There he remained the whole 



1 Of Portugal. 



2 This was probably the " Barbinhas " referred to by Couto in 

 X. vn. xiii. (see p. 273, note \ and c/. p. 242, note 4 ). 



3 Who this Brahman pandit was I do not know. 



4 Correa (iv. 725) says : — " The viceroy Dom Affonso, through the 

 faulty navigation that was kept on his voyage, being separated from the 

 other ships made landfall in Ceylao at the end of October, where he at 

 once occupied himself in some things to his profit, as I shall tell further 



on. And he left Ceylao, " As Correa does not appear to have 



written more than the four volumes, his promise was never fulfilled. 



5 Cf. supra, p. 124. This is the first mention of a Portuguese settle- 

 ment at Galle. 



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