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rowing until the moment when he should give them the 

 signal to ply their oars ; and to go, as if exhausted, to meet 

 the enemy, which they did. The enemy seeing that tone 

 coming thus thought that it was going to surrender to 

 them, and ceased rowing for it to come up ; but when it was 

 alongside of them, they having stopped, as soon as it reached 

 their beaks its oars were plied ; and as it was light and swift 

 it passed them all so quickly, that before they could turn it was 

 already a good distance away from them, and so escaped mira- 

 culously, and proceeded to gain the fortress, and the captain, 

 learning of the danger in which the other tone was, sent to its 

 succour several foists that were in the bay filled with many men. 

 Fernao Soares, who was in the other tone, and who was of great 

 experience on that coast, as soon as he saw the ships of Raju, 

 and that they went spreading out over the sea in order to 

 inclose him, firing many bombard shots at him to stop him, put 

 all his strength and hope in the rowing, and tried all he could 

 to get to windward of them, and by dint of great trouble did so, 

 and went fleeing from them as fast as he could. Our armada, 

 which had gone out to succour him, soon caught sight of the 

 enemy ; and seeing that on seeing them they also tried to get 

 to windward of them, fearing that they would cut them off 

 from the harbour bar, they turned about for it, the tone mean- 

 while getting the opportunity of retiring at its pleasure, and 

 so was welcomed in the fortress as that which carried the 

 greater part of the money with which provision had to be 

 made that winter, from which the captain began to make 

 some payments to the soldiers, and to prepare for the siege 

 that he expected. 



And as Raju's troops had already begun to arrive, he sent 

 out against them several modeliares, who always brought him 

 some heads of the enemies ; and being informed that Paliconda 1 , 

 chief arache of Raju, was advancing with many men making 

 attacks, he sent the modeliares Diogo da Silva 2 , Manoel Pereira 3 , 

 Pedro Afonso, and others in company with Francisco Gomes 

 Leitao 4 , field captain, with some Portuguese to see if they 



1 In manuscript " Paly Conde." No person with a name like this is 

 mentioned in the Rdjdvaliya. Some form like " Pallekanda " seems 

 intended. 



2 It appears from X. x. i. (p. 306) that this man was a Moor. He may 

 possibly be the "Pida Silla" of the Rdjdvaliya 95, the corresponding 

 passage in Upham's translation (315) having " Juda Silva." We shall 

 hear a good deal of him during the siege. 



3 We have met with this man before (see supra, p. 265). He is there 

 described as an arachchi (as also infra, p. 296). 



4 See supra, pp. 225, 256. 



