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of the grand chamberlain's, since the king had not cunning 

 for anything : whereby these matters remained without having 

 any further result 1 . 



Dec. VIII., Chap. xvii. 



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In September of this year 1567 the viceroy sent Lisuarte 

 de Aragao de Sousa, who had been granted the Ceilao voyages 2 , 

 as captain of a galleon with many supplies of money, who left 

 on the 26th of September, and returned on the 16th of March 

 1568. 



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Dec. VIII., Chap, xxiii. 



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And he [the viceroy] nominated Dom Fernando de 



Monrroy, a Castilian fidalgo, who was about to go as captain of 

 Ceilao 3 , to go with this succour 4 , ...... 



Dec. VIII., Chap. xxx. 



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and he [the viceroy 5 ] gave orders to Andre da 



Fonseca 6 that from the revenue of the customs he should buy 

 in Malaca a thousand candis of rice, as it was very cheap there, 



1 Cesare Federici, who seems to have been in Pegu from 1567 to 1569, 

 says nothing of the events recorded in the above two chapters : cer- 

 tainly a strange omission, if they actually took place. Linschoten, 

 who, as I have said, is the earliest writer that records the capture of the 

 tooth-relic by the Portuguese, adds to his inaccuracies by stating that it 

 was a banian who produced the counterfeit tooth, and that the latter 

 was bought for a large sum by the king of Vijayahagar ! (Linsch. i. 

 294). 



2 Cf. supra, p. 243, note 1 . 



3 Cf. supra, p. 240, note 3 , and infra, VIII. xxxii. (p. 254), I cannot 

 find that Dom Fernando ever became captain of Columbo. 



4 Of provisions for Malacca, in April 1568. 



5 D. Luiz de Ataide, who arrived in India 10 September 1568 



6 Who was going to Malacca as vedor da fazenda. 



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