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Portuguese, and all the money, which was eighteen thousand 

 parddos of the king's ; and without waiting for Ambrosio Leitao 

 he set sail for Columbo, and the boat with the rest of the people 

 for Manar, the ship being now wholly under water ; and when 

 this foist was making for the port of Columbo she caught sight of 

 three ships that she thought came out from the fortress, which 

 were those of the Malavares, which up till then had remained 

 in safety at Brijao 1 , and the same against which Pedro Homem 

 Pereira 2 had gone , as we have related above 3 . Diogo Gonsalves , 

 although not knowing who they were, turned out of their way, 

 and sailed away again from land, and as night soon came on 

 he passed by them, and got in to Columbo, where he learnt that 

 the ships were those of robbers, and they all gave thanks 

 to God for permitting them to turn aside from them so that 

 there escaped from them that provision so necessary for that 

 fortress, which was already in such a state for want of them 

 that the soldiers had deserted the bastions on account of 

 having nothing to eat, nor anything with which to cover 

 themselves, and with this money all was remedied, and quiet 

 was restored ; and Joao Correa de Brito, captain of that 

 fortress, at once sent money to the opposite coast to procure 

 food, which afterwards came there. Ambrosio Leitao soon 

 arrived on the following day after Diogo Gonsalves, and 

 brought a large cafila 4 " of provisions, having passed the pardos 

 without sighting them, because that same night they returned 

 to the opposite coast : thus the country was provided and the 

 fortress relieved from the fear in which it was. 



Dec. X., Bk. vn., Chap. xiii. 



Of how Raju murdered his father Madune 5 : and of the new 

 city that he built on the river Calane 6 : and of the siege that 

 he began to lay to the fortress of Columbo. 



Raju having retired from the siege that he laid to Columbo, 

 Manoel de Sousa Coutinho being captain, as was related in 



1 This should evidently be " Beligao " (see p. 266). 



2 So in the manuscript. The printed edition has, through some 

 unaccountable blunder, " Pedro Clemente de Aguiar." 



3 See supra, X. iv. xii. (p. 265). 



4 Convoy (see Hob. -Job. s.v.). 



5 The printed edition has " Madunch " ; while the manuscript has 

 the extraordinary form " Muduchan." 



6 In printed edition " Canale." 



