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king of Cota his grandmother and other relatives that the 

 king of Jafanapatao had delivered up to him, and the prince 

 he ordered to be taken to Goa, in charge of Pero Lopez Rebello 1 . 

 And after making provision for everything that was necessary, 

 he set sail for Cochim, where he arrived in a few days ; and 

 there we shall leave him for a little, because it is necessary 

 for us to continue with the events that took place during this 

 time in Ceilao, in order that we may 'ollow the order of 

 history. 



Dec. VII., Bk. ix., Chap. vi. 



Of the events that took place at this time in Ceilao : and of the 

 war t at Dom Jorge Baroche waged against Madune : and 

 of the encounters that they had, and combats that took place : 

 and of some honourable feats that happened therein to 

 some of our people. 



The events of this year, being so many, do not allow us to 

 continue with them in order ; and those that took place at the 

 beginning of this summer 2 we cannot dispose of in any other 

 place than this, because so they will fall in with us better. 

 Madune did not cease to continue at war with his brother the 

 king of Cota, towards whom he bore a deadly hatred, and 

 sought to deprive him of the kingdom (as we have several 

 times said 3 ) , in which our people always favoured him of Cota. 

 And now Afonso Pereira de Lacerda, captain of Columbo, 

 was continually in the field to prevent Madune from entering 

 his territories, having many encounters with his captains, in 

 which there was loss on both sides (of which we do not make 

 mention, because they were so frequent, that it would be an 

 endless business to relate them). Suffice it thatithe encounter 

 with the enemy was always in order that he might not come 

 and lay siege to that city of Cota, in which the king was with 

 some Portuguese, and all by dint of assaults by day and by 

 night, in which our people suffered many hardships : because 

 as the enemy were in their own territories, and had all supplies 



1 This is the last we hear of the prince in Couto's pages. 



2 By " the beginning of this summer," it is to be presumed, is meant 

 September 1559 ; but, as I said above (p. 178, note l ), Couto seems to 

 have omitted some years , or run the events of several together. 



3 So many times, that here Couto repeats the formula almost verba- 

 tim, without even altering "brother" to "grand-nephew." (He 

 makes the same error in VII. x. xiv. and xix., pp. 214, 222). 



