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other side met with winds contrary for being able to cross over 

 to Columbo, it being already late; and taking the opinion of the 

 pilot and the ships' officers, men of experience on that coast, 

 all agreed that it would be a great risk in that weather to 

 attempt to cross with the galleon : that a better plan would be 

 for the men to disembark there and journey by land as far as 

 Remanacor 1 , and thence cross over to Manar, where they 

 wo aid find ships to get to Ceilao : and that in this, though 

 there might be some more delay, was greater safety for anyone 

 that was going to succour a fortress that was besieged. Upon 

 this resolution they disembarked at Tutocori ; and having had 

 an interview with the fathers of the Company, under whose 

 administration in spiritual matters the whole of that coast 

 lies 2 , they gave them the same counsel, offering to supply 

 them with all the boats and sailors that they should need to 

 get to Manar. Upon this Joao Caiado got ready for the 

 journey, and arranged to leave the galleon with twenty soldiers 

 in guard, there being news of some galliots of Malavares ; but 

 none of them wished to remain, saying that they were going in 

 succour to the king's 3 fortress, and that they must reach there. 

 Joao Caiado seeing that it was absolutely necessary for that 

 galleon to remain there guarded, there being in her much 

 artillery and provisions, won them over by means of fictions 

 and fair words, prevailing upon them that it was absolutely 

 necessary for that galleon to remain guarded 4 ; that those that 

 were drawn hy lot should remain ; and in this he so managed 

 matters that only those were drawn that he thought he could 

 most do without, and he appointed as captain Bertolameu 

 Rodrigues : and he gave orders to the officers to go to Goa ; and 

 having disembarked all the money and munitions that he 

 could, they went marching by land to Remanacor, where the 

 fathers were to have the boats for them to get to Manar. Those 

 of the galleon were left disconsolate and disgusted ; and on the 

 ship's officers' wishing to return to Goa, Bertolameu Rodrigues 

 and the soldiers 5 came up and would not allow them to weigh 

 the anchors, telling them that they must commend themselves 

 to God ; because, even should they run the risk of being lost, 

 they intended to try to get to Columbo to succour the king's 

 fortress, which was in need, because in her were the provisions 

 and munitions that the viceroy had sent in succour of 



1 See supra, p. 96, note 3 . 



2 As it had done since the time of Xavier. 



3 The manuscript omits " king's." 



4 The manuscript omits the words " that it was .... guarded," 

 which are a mere repetition of those a few lines above. 



5 The manuscript omits " and the soldiers." 



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