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to sea, when they left them behind, and in two days crossed 

 over to the other coast, and Nogueira took his way by land to 

 Goa, and the other went giving word at all those ports of the 

 strait in which Columbo was, upon which several persons 

 began to negotiate with the object of succouring it 1 . 



Dec. X., Bk. ix., Chap. v. 



Of the manner in which Baju fortified himself, and began to 

 drain the lake : and of some assaults that our people made 

 upon him, in which they always did him harm. 



Although Raju was already at a camello 2 shot from our 

 fortress, knowing that for the business of the lake, which was 

 the first that he wished to begin, it was necessary for him to be 

 nearer in order to be able to do it more safely, he commanded 

 to be excavated under the earth very broad ways with their 

 defences by which his people could get to the work with less 

 risk ; and besides this he ordered to cut down the jungle that 

 reached from the ditch to the village of the pachas on the 

 island that had been abandoned (and it must be understood 

 that in all cases where " the island " is mentioned it is this 

 of Antonio de Mendonca 3 ) ; and behind the Quarry hill 4 were 

 made some tranqueiras towards Nacolagoao 5 , which went 



1 The result of these men's mission Couto tells us in X. x. i. and iv. 

 infra (pp. 305, 323 -4, 327-8). 



2 A kind of cannon. 



3 See supra, p. 283, note 6 , and p. 293. 



4 See supra, p. 283, note 4 . 



5 The Rajavaliya says (91): — " Vikramasinha Mudali pitched his 

 camp, having erected a stockade, at Lower Boralugoda. Senarat 

 Mudali encamped on the plain of Boralugoda." To this statement the 

 compiler of the Rajavaliya or some later writer adds the comment : — 

 ' ' Note that Adirippu Palliya stands on Boralugoda hill ; and that in 

 Lower Boralugoda lies Santumpitiya" Although the name Adirippu 

 Palliya (in Tamil Asaruppalli) now denotes the Wolvendaal Church, it 

 has really been transferred to it from the Portuguese church that stood 

 there previously and was called Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe (after the 

 famous church at Guadalupe in Spain), the Sinhalese and Tamil names 

 being evidently corruptions of the last word* (The footnote on this 

 subject in the C. A. S. Jl. xii. 79 is incorrect.) SantumpUiya still sur- 

 vives in Qenioopitty street (an odd perversion, santum probably repre- 

 senting Port, santao, " religious mendicant "; while gentoo is Port. 

 ijentio, " heathen "). 



