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much business ; and he dispatched Fernao Gomez Cordovil 

 to go to the town of Sao Thome and get the inhabitants 

 to cross over to Jafanapatao 1 , to whom he wrote very flattering 

 letters in which he urged them to do this, because it was to the 

 credit neither of the Portuguese nor of them that they should 

 remain in that town, exposed to affronts and insults which 

 the Canaras 2 could put upon them whenever they wished. And 

 that the kingdom of Jafanapatao had many and good ports, 

 where they could carry on by sea their traffic and merchandize ; 

 and that the country was very fertile and abounding in every- 

 thing ; and that he would apportion them in such a manner that 

 they would live more comfortably and with less alarms ; and 

 that they were to be ready when he sent vessels to bring 



them over 



Having arranged everything, the viceroy set out, and in his 

 company the bishop of Cochim Dom Jorge Temudo in a galliot, 

 who wished to accompany him on that expedition, that 

 island belonging to his jurisdiction 3 , and five or six other 

 vessels that were equipped in that city. With the whole of 

 this fleet he passed Cape Comorim, and went as far as the 

 shoals of Chilao, and as the galleys could not cross them, 

 he sent them back to Cochim, in charge of Vicente Correa, 

 the navjr surveyor of India, and the viceroy went on board the 

 galliot of Inofre 4 do Soveral, and the captains of the other gal- 

 leys on to other rowing vessels ; and Ay res Falcao alone went 

 crossing in his galliot ; and when all had reached the middle of 

 the shoals 5 , he alone struck on them with his sails set ; and 

 a very big sea that came rolling up struck his vessel on the poop 

 and lifted it off again, and with that violence he got over 

 them to the other side without perishing, and from there went 

 with all the fleet and anchored over against Jafanapatao 6 . 



1 See supra, VII. vm. x. (p. 180). 



2 The Portuguese applied this name to the inhabitants of Vijaya- 

 nagar (see Hob.- Job. s.v. " Canara ") . 



3 See supra, VII. vm. ii. (p. 179). D. Jorge Themudo, of the order 

 of St. Dominick, had come out from Portugal the previous year. It 

 was in his company that Couto came (see p. 180, note 2 ). 



4 Previously Couto calls him Duarte. There was an Inofre (Hum- 

 phrey) de Soveral in the East at this time, but I cannot say which name 

 is correct here. 



5 Apparently the fleet passed through one of the openings in Adam's 

 Bridge. 



6 What direction the vessels took after passing Adam's Bridge is not 

 said ; but from the statement that they anchored " over against 

 Jafanapatao " it would seem that they took their course between 

 Mandativu and Kalmupai. 



