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brought into the fortress, where many died, and the rest con- 

 valesced very slowly, owing to their lacking remedies 1 . 



The viceroy, having obtained possession of the prince, 

 proceeded to the river at the extremity of the territories, and 

 sent to recall the captains that were on the other side, and 

 there he waited more than a fortnight, during which there 

 were delivered to him the things that by the treaty of peace 

 that king had promised him, which might amount to some 

 eighty thousand cruzados ; and he also handed over some 

 olas in which were entered descriptions of the places in 

 Cota in which the treasures of Tribuli Pandar had been buried. 

 At this time there came to see the viceroy Joao Fernandez 

 Correa, captain of Negapatao, who when he had there received 

 the viceroy's letters had immediately sent him many vessels 



1 The physician Dimas Bosque, who, as I have mentioned above 

 (p. 183, note 4 ), accompanied this expedition, refers to this outbreak 

 of sickness amongst the Portuguese in Jaffna, and the means adopted 

 to cure it. The passage is so interesting that I give it almost in full. 

 In Garcia da Orta's fifty-eighth Goloquio Dimas says : — " When the 

 viceroy Dom Constantino was in Jafanapatam, what with the con- 

 tinuous labours of the war, and the much wet to which the men were 

 constantly exposed, and the lack of provisions, much people fell sick of 

 fluxes, the cure of all of whom passed through my hands, there being no 

 other physician in the armada. And as the medicines that had been 

 taken from here [Goa] had already been used up in the island of Manar, 

 with the sick on two ships from the kingdom [see infra, p. 202, note 1 ], 

 who arrived there in such bad condition that in the space of forty days 

 I cured some three hundred men ; and afterwards not having where- 

 with to relieve the fluxes, which were causing such trouble to the army, 

 I found it necessary and was forced to experiment with what I had 

 heard from the people of the couatry of these quinces ; and with them 

 I cured many persons, ordering to make jellies, and plasters for the 

 stomach and belly. I also ordered to make marmalade, which did not 

 taste bad, but on the contrary had a very pleasant acid flavour ; I 

 ordered the sick to eat them roasted with sugar ; and I likewise ordered 

 to make, during the time that these fluxes lasted, clysters from the 

 decoction of the shells, and they had an effect not very different from 

 the balausties and styptic things that we use here ; in such wise that, 

 with these quinces as we call them, the lack of other medicines was 

 remedied. One thing I cannot omit to tell you, which happened to me 

 with these quinces. Augustinho Nunez, son of Lionardo Nunez, chief 

 physician of these realms, had many of his soldiers sick ; and I ordered 

 a black of his to roast two quinces, to give to an invalid soldier ; " (they 

 burst in the fire, and burnt the black severely). These quinces (mar- 

 melos) were, of course, the bael or beli-gedi, much used by the natives 

 in cases of dysentery. While with this expedition Dimas Bosque also 

 made dissections of dugongs (see G, da Orta ii. 385-6). 



