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accompanied him on this expedition are the following : — 

 Dom Fernando de Meneses his son, Dom Antonio deNoronha, 

 son of the viceroy Dom Garcia de Noronha, Eitor de Mello, 

 Diogo Alvarez Tellez, Bastiao de Sa, Francisco de Mello Per ira, 

 Dom Joao Anriquez 1 , Martim Afonso de Miranda, Pero 

 Barreto, Vasco da Cunha, Goncalo Pereira Marramaque, 

 Afonso Pereira de Lacerda, Diogo de Sousa, Diogo de Miranda 

 Anriquez, Diogo de Mello Coutinho 2 , Antonio de Noronha, 

 Jorge Pereira Coutinho, Fernao de Castanhoso, Nicolao de 

 Sousa, Alvaro de Lemos, Manoel do Canto, Pero Vaz de 

 Matos, Joao da Rocha, Mathias de Trinchel, Luis Mergulhao, 

 Pero Salgado the viceroy's ensign, and his veador, Simao 

 Botelho 3 the veador da fazenda, Andre de Mendanha the 

 chief justice, Manoel da Cunha, and other fidalgos and knights. 

 In this fleet there went three thousand men, a very fine body. 



The viceroy went pursuing his course to Cochim, 



where in passing he dispatched some business ; and leaving 

 there he doubled Cape Comorim and crossed over to Ceilao, 

 where he arrived in a few days. 



Dec. VI., Bk. ix., Chap. xvii. 



Of how the viceroy Dom Afonso de Noronha disembarked at 

 Columbo and had an interview with the king of Cota : and 

 of the compact that they made against Madune : and of how 

 they routed him and captured the city of Ceitavaca. 



The viceroy having anchored with all his fleet in the port 

 of Columbo disembarked on the following day, and the king 

 and Caspar d'Azevedo the alcaide mor gave him a very grand 

 reception : because through some rowing vessels that had 

 gone in advance they had had notice of his coming, and had 

 at once gone to Columbo to await him, the king taking with 



1 This man, we shall see further on (p. 154), was left at Columbo as 

 captain-major of Ceylon. 



2 Succeeded D. Joao Henriques on the death of the latter (see infra, 

 p. 157). 



3 Perhaps the only honest man in the whole gang of robbers. Regard- 

 ing him see Whiteway 290-8, and Sousa Viterbo's O Thesouro do Rei 

 de Ceyldo 1-17. From his long letter to the king of 30 January 1552, 

 it appears that he wished to leave for Portugal, as the king had given 

 him leave to do, but the viceroy forbade it on various grounds, so he 

 was forced to accompany this marauding expedition. 



