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of Columbo, and Ceilao 1 , of which he had the reversion 2 , and 

 he went embarked on the supply galleon 3 , the captain of 



which was Antonio de Brito of the severed arm 4 



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Dec. X., Bk. iv., Chap. xii. 



Of what happened to D. Jeronimo Mascarenhas on the whole 

 voyage until he returned to India : and of what befell him 

 in Ceilao : and of the assaults that Joao Correa de Brito 

 ordered to be made upon the territories of Raju 5 . 



We have related above 6 how Joao Correa de Brito went to 

 enter into the captaincy of Columbo, with the reversion of 

 which he came provided from the kingdom in company with 

 the count Dom Francisco. Having arrived at that fortress 7 , 



1 The captaincy was extended to the whole of Ceylon, to which 

 King Philip laid claim. 



2 See supra, X. i. ix. (p. 261). 



3 Couto does not say when this sailed ; but it must have been at the 

 end of September or beginning of October 1583. 



1 We shall come across this man again in X. x. viii. and ix. infra 

 (pp. 343, 349). 



5 The manuscript has " Raya." 



6 See supra, X. iv. v. 



7 Probably in October 1583. He succeeded Manoel de Sousa 

 Coutinho (see supra, X. r. vii., p. 261) ; and on 4 November both these 

 captains were present at a ratification by Dharmapala of his donation 

 of the kingdom of Ceylon to the kings of Portugal (see Orient, iii. 131-3, 

 193-4). Manoel de Sousa left Ceylon in November or December 

 probably ; and in X. iv. xiii. Couto mentions him as being at Cochim 

 with his wife and household. So highly did the viceroy appreciate 

 Manoel de Sousa's services as captain of Columbo, that by the ships of 

 1584 he wrote to the king that on account of Raja Sinha's activity he 

 thought it would be better that Manoel de Sousa Coutinho, with the 

 experience he had of Columbo, should continue there as captain ; but 

 as Joao Correa de Brito had insisted on his right to the post he had given 

 it to him. On 25 February 1585 King Philip wrote to the new 

 viceroy on this subject, telling him in all such cases to do what was best 

 for the royal service. Meanwhile, Manoel de Sousa had left India (in 

 January 1585), by the fleet that carried the retired viceroy, in order to 

 represent his services to the king (see Couto X. vi. iii.) ; and in Febru- 

 ary 1586, Couto tells us (X. vni. vi.), by the Bom Jesus or Garanja, 

 there embarked for India " Manoel de Sousa Coutinho full of honours 

 and rewards, because he carried the captaincy of Malaca, and a voyage 

 to Japao, and the captaincy of Bacaim, the reversion of which had 



