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went up and down preventing the passage of Raju's troops, 

 as well as making attacks on several of his father's villages, 

 which they destroyed and burnt. The king of Cota, although 

 he was in an impoverished condition, yet mustered his troops, 

 and put in the field some modeliares, who had many encounters 

 with the enemy in which there was loss on each side. And 

 since these assaults were many and unimportant, and we do 

 not find a record of anything noteworthy, we shall pass them 

 over : enough that they spent part of the summer and all this 

 winter 1 in waging all the war they could, and so we shall 

 leave them until we return to them. 



Dec. VII., Bk. in., Chap. x. 



This prince 2 , they say, went and landed in the island of 

 Ceilao, haying taken with him a large number and throng of 

 jogues, his disciples, and that he took up his abode on that moun- 

 tain range where is Adam's Peak, where he lived many years 

 leading a holy life . And desiring to depart thence , his disciples , 

 who remained there, begged him to leave them some memorial 

 of him : upon which, planting his foot upon a slab of rock, he 

 impressed in it that footprint, as if he had done it in a little 

 soft wax, the which they venerate and reverence as that of our 

 father Adam ; and it is held by all in such veneration, as I 

 have described in the twentieth 3 chapter of the sixth book 

 of my Fifth Decade, where I relate this matter of this footprint 

 very minutely, and show that this island of Ceilao is the 

 Tapobrana of Ptolemy, in which I treat of many curious things 

 which no previous writer has written of. This prince is called 

 in their writings by many names : but the principal one is 

 Drama Raio ; and after that they held him for a saint they 

 called him Budon, which means " sage," to whom this heathenry 

 have erected all over India many very costly and sumptuous 

 pagodes ; and in his legend they relate great marvels, which, 

 in order not to surfeit and weary the reader, I refrain from 

 setting down. 



1 This should mean the first eight months of 1556 : but when we 

 return to the king of Kotte and his Portuguese allies (in VII. ix. vi., p. 

 204) we shall find that there is a hiatus, or else Couto has run several 

 years together. 



2 See V. vi. ii. (p. 113), where the same details are given in almost 

 identical words. 



3 This should be "second." 



