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Coutinho for this enterprise 1 with the title of captain-major of 

 the sea of India, on account of his being very experienced in 

 the affairs of Ceilao, as the one who had been captain in 

 Columbo five or six years before, and had sustained that great 

 siege, which the same Raju had laid to it, from which he 

 emerged broken and defeated 2 : 



Dec. X., Bk. x., Chap. xi. 



of how Manoel de Sousa went with an armada to the 



coast of the north : and of what happened on the journey to 

 Joad Caiado de Gamhoa until he arrived at Columbo : and of 

 the things that further happened in that fortress. 



He * * * * * * 



Whilst occupied in getting ready the armada that he was to 

 send to Ceilao, the viceroy received news that to the coast of 

 the north had passed some Malavar ships intent on making- 

 prizes ; and because that coast was left to itself, and every day 

 there came Portuguese ships from all those fortresses, he 

 resolved that until the monsoon arrived in which Manoel de 

 Sousa had to set out, which was at the end of January, he 

 should spend that time on that coast, whereupon he continued 

 fulfilling the duty of the armada that he was to send to it, 

 because the rest of the summer he had ordered Dom Ruy Gomes 

 da Silva to get ready with some ships in Bacaim in order to go 

 about guarding the cafilas : and so he ordered Manoel de Sousa 

 and the captains who were nominated to go with him in succour 

 to CeilaS, and that he was to embark at once, whilst things 

 were being got ready for the expedition, and that they should 

 spend those two months on the coast of the north from Goa as 

 far as Dabul. This armada set out in the middle of November, 

 and spent the time on that coast until January, in which they 

 returned in order to arrange for the expedition to Columbo : 

 and as there happened nothing noteworthy ^ we have thus 

 related this in sum. 



Returning to Joao Caiado de Gamboa 3 , he went pursuing 

 his voyage, and in a few days passed Cape Comorim, and on the 



1 See Linsch. ii. 197. In a letter dated 6 February 1589 (printed 

 in Arch. Port.-Or. i.) King Philip expresses his approval of all the vice- 

 roy had done for the relief of Columbo, including the sending of a fleet 

 under Manoel de Sousa Coutinho. 



2 See supra, p. 257 ; p. 264, note 7 . 



3 See previous chapter, p. 353. 



