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It having been settled that it was to be at this place, the 

 viceroy arranged the order of disembarkation, and mustered 

 all the troops, and found no more than one thousand two 

 hundred men, although in Goa pay had been received by more 

 than four thousand (it being the custom, when viceroys 

 embarked, to make a general payment to all, even to the 

 Portuguese officials and the casados 1 , and for those to 

 embark that liked ; because by means of this bounty and 

 liberality this state was always increased and sustained). Of 

 all these soldiers the viceroy Dom Constantino formed five 

 companies of two hundred men each 2 , as captains of which he 

 appointed Luis de Mello da Sylva 3 , to whom he had given the 

 leadership of that expedition, Dom Antonio de JSToronha 

 Catarras, Martim Afonso de Miranda, Goncalo Falcao, and 

 Fernao de Sousa de Castellobranco, while the viceroy remained 

 to bring up the rearguard with the banner of Christ, with all 

 the fidalgo adventurers and people of his retinue, who formed 

 a very considerable body. 



All having been arranged, the viceroy ordered an altar to be 

 set up on an islet that was there 4 , in which a very devout mass 

 to our Lady was said, at which he and the greater part of the 

 fidalgos and men of the fleet communicated with much devout- 

 ness 5 and the bishop of Cochim gave them a general absolution, 

 and conceded the great and plenary jubilees 5 that the 

 supreme pontiffs had granted at the instance of the king Dom 

 Manoel for all those that might be killed in battle in India 

 fighting for the faith of Christ 6 . This holy and divine act 



1 Literally "married men." Regarding them see C. A. S. Jl. xi. 508, n. 



2 The viceroy himself evidently commanding the extra two hundred. 



3 This man is not mentioned in the list of captains in the previous 

 chapter. 



4 Probably Siritivu, the islet between Mandaitivu and Jaffna. 



5 See New Eng. Diet. s.v. " Jubilee," 2. 



6 In Alg. Doc. 146 is printed the summary of a bull issued by pope 

 Julius II. at Rome, 12 July 1506, conceding "plenary indulgence 

 for all sins to the faithful of both sexes who by order of the king (Dom 

 Manuel) shall go out to India, or shall reside there, or die there." In the 

 same volume, p. 363, is the summary of another bull, by Leo X., dated 

 Rome, 18 of the kalends of October (14 September) 1514, granting 

 plenary indulgence to those serving in the conquests of Africa, Ethiopia, 

 Arabia, Persia, and India. On p. 455 is the summary of another bull 

 of Leo X.'s, dated Rome, 12 kal. of October (20 September) 1521, 

 in which the scope of the indulgence is extended to all the Portuguese 

 acquisitions in the Red Sea, Persia, Malacca, Sumatra, and China, and 

 to those that died at sea as well as on land. 



