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the many thanks and praises that they gave to the most 

 high God and to his mother the Virgin of the Snows, on whose 

 day they had received such a signal mercy, those that could 

 offering to her gifts and pilgrimages. The captain hastened 

 to inspect the wounded, whom he ordered to be tended with 

 great care. 



Dec. X., Bk. x., Chap. iii. 



Of the loss that there was on the side of the enemy : and of some 

 succours that came from without : and of how the captain 

 repaired the bastions and posts. 



The captain was very desirous of knowing what was taking 

 place in Raju's camp since this combat and the number of 

 dead, wherefore he sent out his spies, who brought him the 

 head of a lascarim, and a cornaca alive, who was unable to 

 give information about anything. At the same conjuncture 

 there fled to the fortress three Chinamen who had been cap- 

 tives, who were wrecked in a ship, in which the father Pero 

 Dias was also coming, which ran ashore, and the father and 

 some others saved themselves in the boat, and the rest were 

 made captives on land 1 . These likewise were unable to 

 give the information that the captain desired ; but after- 

 wards there came other spies, who were able to give full 

 particulars, and affirmed that Raju had lost four hundred 

 men, the very pick of the army, among whom were many 

 ar aches and the modeliares of Tanavaca 2 and Cornagale 3 , 

 and more than two thousand wounded ; they had also had 

 two elephants killed and six wounded. 



1 Couto gives no date for this wreck, and I can find no other reference 

 to it. Presumably the ship was coming .from China to India, and was 

 wrecked on the south or west coast of Ceylon. In what capacity the 

 three Chinamen (homens Chinas) were coming, does not appear. 



2 See supra, p. 34, note 3 . The manuscript has " Tanacaua." 



3 The printed edition has " o da Cornaria do Gale," and the manu- 

 script the same, except that the third word reads " Carnaria." This 

 means literally " him of the Cornaria of the Gale," which is sheer non- 

 sense. I have therefore ventured to substitute " of Cornagale," 

 though an objection to this is the fact that nowhere else does Couto 

 mention Kurunegala by name (unless " Urungure " in VII. in. v. be 

 meant for this). " Cornaria " may, however, be a copyist's error for 

 " Comarca " — district, in which case the translation would be : 

 " and him [the modeliar] of the district of Gale." 



