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it 1 : that of more importance was it for that fortress to have 

 them than the risking of the galleon : and that God was sure to be 

 pleased to give them very good weather and bring them in safety , 

 since they were going on a matter so much in his service ; and 

 so they let themselves lie there at anchor with a very fierce 

 north-wind, which lasted three days. When these were past 

 it changed, and turned fair for them, and Bertolameu Rodrigues 

 caused sail to be set against the wish of the officers, who made 

 their exclamations and protests, and they went running along 

 the coast as far as the Island of the Jogues 2 , and experiencing 

 favourable weather, they forthwith crossed over to the other 

 side, and on the next day came in sight of the opposite coast 3 

 near to the river Cardiva 4 , and along the shore with the wind 

 further off they went and anchored in Columbo to the joy of all, 

 as they arrived before Joao Caiado. Bertolameu Rodrigues 

 disembarked, and gave the captain an account of the expedi- 

 tion of Joao Caiado, and said that he might be there any day, 

 upon which those in the fortress began to be of good cheer and 

 to eat their fill of the food that had come in the galleon, the 

 captain spreading the report that there were coming in the 

 keeping of Joao Caiado twenty thousand cruzados, both 

 thereby to break the spirit of the enemy as well as to hearten 

 the soldiers, who if they are paid and well fed do not feel the 

 toils or fear the dangers of war, however great they may be. 



Joao Caiado, after reaching Remanacor, collected the 

 caragones 5 that seemed to him necessary for transporting all 

 that force of men and materiel, which he did in a short time 

 owing to the great assistance that the fathers of the Company 

 had prepared for him : and because he had remained at the 

 point of Remanacor, which is the last of the shoals, at the 



1 The manuscript omits these last four words. 



2 In IV. vn. ix. Couto relates how, in 1531, " Manoelde Macedo by 

 the bad navigation of his pilot got on the inner side of Cape Comorim 

 without knowing where he was, and ran the ship aground on the sand- 

 bank of the Island of the Jogues in front of the town of Calecare, which 

 is on the main land, before reaching the shoals of Chilao." The earliest 

 map that I have seen that marks the island is that of Reland, Nova 

 Tabula Terrarum Gucan, Canara, Malabaria, &c. (? 1710), in which is 

 shown a chain of islets surrounded by sandbanks stretching from Kila- 

 karai to Pamban, to which is appended the description " I. dos Iogues of 

 Pater Noster. " I cannot exactly identify the island referred to by Couto. 



3 The printed edition omits the words " and coast." 



4 "Cardiva " is Karaittivu, and the " river " is Portugal Bay (see 

 infra, p. 393, and M . Lit. Beg. iv. 157 ; and cf. supra, p. 104, note 3 ). 



6 See supra, p. 349, note 5 , 



