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the high seas put in to Manar 1 . This succour was welcomed 

 by all, as being of greater strength and arriving at such a 

 good time. The captain gave to Nuno Alvares Datouguia 

 the place in which he was, which was the quarter of Sao 

 Gonsalo, and placed Pero Rodrigues with his men in the 

 bastion of Santo Estevao, and Antonio Coelho in that of 

 Sao Joao, in which was Thome de Sousa de Arronches, cap- 

 tain-major of the sea in Ceilao, whom the captain ordered 

 to put the galley to sea, and provide his armada in order to 

 cruise in it, because with the succour from Cochim the city 

 was secure : which he did, providing the ships with captains 

 who were in the foists in the bay ; and transferred himself 

 to the post of the alcaide mor, which was the quarter of 

 Mapano ; and the alcaide mor went to the factory, keeping 

 a galliot manned with people of his in order to embark in 

 it when necessary. 



Dec. X., Bk. x., Chap. v. 



Of some succours that came besides from without to the fortress 

 of Golumbo : and of the assaults that our people made on the 

 tranqueiras of the enemy : and of how our fleet fought with 

 that of Raju. 



The news of the siege of Columbo spread along the whole 

 coast of Negapatao until it reached the city of Sao Thome, 

 upon which many men who were lovers of honour were eager 

 to go and succour it : and those that first offered themselves in 

 their ships were Fernao de Lima, knight of the order of 

 Christ, a very good soldier and a friend of Joao Correa de 

 Brito's, Manoel Damaral, who had come there as captain 

 of a galliot of Bengala, Rodrigo Alvres, half-brother to Thome 

 de Sousa de Arronches, with others and the best soldiers that 

 they could find ; and fair weather serving them, in a few days 

 they reached Columbo just at the beginning of September. 

 The captain received them with much honour, stationing 

 Fernao de Lima on the cavalier of the bastion of Sao Sebastiao, 

 and Manoel Damaral in another necessitous part, and Rodrigo 

 Alvres went to the position that had been his brother's 2 . 



1 Where he remained until the end of October (see p. 349 infra). 



2 Originally Thome de Sousa had been allotted the bastion of S. Joao 

 only, but afterwards Joao Correa had incharged him with the stretch 

 of ramparts from there to the bastion of Madre de Deos (see supra, 

 pp. 293, 316). As we read at the end of the preceding chapter, 

 Thome de Sousa had now resumed his substantive post of captain - 

 major at sea. 



