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Thome 1 , which was much damnified , they restored inside with a 

 very thick wall, and at high- water mark was erected a wooden 

 sentry-box 2 , in order that under cover of the bastion of Sao 

 Joao it might defend the sea-shore. The bastion of Santo 

 Estevao Joao Correa had already strongly fortified, because 

 it was the most important of all, and by it are commanded the 

 field of Sao Thome 3 , the Quarry 4 , the Plain 5 , the island of 

 Antonio de Mendoca 6 , and the Calapate 7 , and in one direction 

 it flankers two bastions, and in the other four 8 . Before this 

 the captain had made a ditch with its entrenchments and 

 fences of thick stakes from the bend of the lake by the foot of 

 the Quarry hill to the sea, with two gates, one towards the 

 Quarry and the Cota side, the guarding of which he incharged 

 to Dom Antonio modeliar, and the other towards the side of 

 Matual, in which he placed Diogo da Silva modelliar 9 , and 

 divided between these two all the araches to keep watch over 

 the tranqueiras outside, and those inside he intrusted to 

 Portuguese, as we shall relate in due course 10 . 



Raju continued to carry on both his preparations and his 

 cruelties, since there did not pass a day that he did not order 

 someone of the grandees to be put to death : and he had already 



1 By an oversight the copyist of the manuscript has omitted all after 

 " bastion " down to the word " bastion " before " Santo Estevao." 

 This bastion of S. Thome, which is again mentioned on p. 294 infra, 

 disappeared at a later date (see the lists in C. A. S. Jl. xii. 80). 



2 In original guarita. The word occurs frequently further on. It 

 seems to indicate a kind of watch-tower. 



3 So called from the church standing there, the precursor of the 

 present St. Thomas's Church. 



4 Seeswpra, p. 114, note 5 . It is evident that the places named by 

 Couto occur in order from left to right, looking eastward. I cannot 

 help thinking that the Quarry (Pedreira) was identical with Boralugoda, 

 now called Wolvendaal Hill (see Rajav. 91). 



5 Called " the plain of Boralugoda " in the Rdjdvaliya (91). 



6 Possibly represented by the present " Dhobies' Island " ; but this 

 part of Columbo has been so altered by the filling in of a branch of the 

 lake that it is difficult to identify the positions named. 



7 This name is suspiciously like *' Kollupitiya," but the identity is 

 doubtful, as some spot much nearer to the Fort seems to be indicated. 

 (But see infra, p. 381, note 2 .) 



8 Namely, on the left, S. Joao and S. Thome ; and on the right, S. 

 Sebastiao, Santo Antonio, Madre de Deos, and S. Goncalo (see infra, 

 pp. 293-5). 



9 By an oversight, the printed edition omits the words from " and 

 the other " to " modelliar" which the manuscript gives. 



10 See infra, pp. 294-6. 



