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the conduits 1 ; and Gurapo 2 arache in the stretch that goes 

 thence to the bastion of Sao Paulo, and in this bastion was 

 stationed Thome Pires. From there to the bastion of Sao 

 Hieronymo 3 was stationed Sinia 4 arache with his pachas ; 

 and in the bastion Estevao Dias, and from it to the watch- 

 tower of Sancta Catherina Giria 5 arache, and in the 

 watch-tower Antonio Tinoco, and in that of Sao Martinho 

 Afonso da Silva, and from there to the watch-tower at the 

 angle 6 Salvador Mendes 7 , and in the watch-tower Silvestre 

 Manco 8 with some native troops. In the bastion of 

 Santiago 9 , which guards the gate and plain of Mapano 10 , 

 was stationed Antonio Guerreiro 11 ; and from it to the sea, 

 comprising three curtains of mud- wall with two watch-towers, 

 Manoel Pereira arache 12 . All the rest of the fortress lay upon 

 the iron-bound coast as far as the point of Sao Lourenco 13 , 

 where the boisterousness of the waves at that part, which was 

 all rocks, caused great earth-shocks, whereby all there was 



1 Portuguese canos. I am not certain of the exact meaning here, 

 but there seems to be some connection with the " brook that traverses 

 the city in the midst " (from the lake to the-sea), according to Ribeiro 

 (see C. A. S. Jl. xii. 77, and compare the maps of Columbo in Baldseus's 

 Ceylon and Le Grand's trans, of Ribeiro). See infra, p. 300. 



2 In printed edition " Gurapu." Perhaps Kurupu is intended. In 

 Bocarro cxi. we read of a " Corupo Modiliar," who is also referred to 

 by Baldseus (Ceylon xi. and xiv.). 



3 Called by Saar " the great bastion of Hieronymus " (see C. A. S. Jl. 

 xii. 79). 



4 I am not sure what name this represents. The manuscript has 

 " Sinja." 



5 The printed edition has " Geria." Perhaps Kiriya is intended. 



6 Probably the angle as shown in Ressende's plan, where the wall 

 took a sudden turn southward, and then again westward. 



7 The printed edition has "Martins." I cannot tell which is correct. 



8 The printed edition has " Manco," which means " meek, mild," 

 while manco means " lame, maimed," and seems more likely to be 

 correct. I may mention, however, that throughout the manuscript 

 the cedilla is omitted. 



9 See C. A. S. Jl. xii. 79 and 80. (The bastion of " S. Jacob " 

 mentioned in the footnote on the latter page is, of course, that of 

 Santiago.) 



10 See supra, p. 171 , note 5 . Of Mapano (better Mapane), the modern 

 Galle Face, we shall hear more in later chapters. 



11 See supra, p. 279, note 1 . 



11 See supra, p. 276, where he is called a modeliar. 



13 So called from the parish church standing there, probably the 

 oldest in Columbo, erected before 1536, during the time of the first 

 Catholic vicar (see C. A. S. Jl. xviii. 365). 



