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after giving the letters for the kingdom 1 , left for Goa, and gave 



the viceroy and the city the news of the victory, With 



this good news the viceroy was relieved and better able to 

 attend to the affairs of Ceilao : and he at once ordered to press 

 forward with the fleet of Manoel de Sousa, which was to go in 

 succour. 



Dec. X., Bk. x., Chap. xiii. 



Of the events that occurred during this time in Columbo : 

 and of the assaults that Raju delivered on that fortress : and 

 of what took place therein. 



Joao Correa de Brito, knowing that Raju was cast down at 

 the little that he had effected in that siege, and at the great 

 damage that he had received from our people, endeavoured to 

 break his spirit altogether, and to drive him to desperation by 

 waging war upon him in all his ports, to which end he ordered 

 Thome de Sousa de Arronches to go with six ships and four 

 tones beyond the point of Galle, and destroy the whole coast 

 on the other side, without leaving anything standing. The 

 captains who accompanied him in the ships were, his brother 

 Diogo 2 Alvres, Diogo Gonsalves, Miguel Ferreira 3 Baracho, 

 Belchior 4 Rebelo, and Andre Botelho. In these ships went 

 one hundred and ten Portuguese, and in the tones sixty las- 

 carins, and the captain of these was Diogo 5 Pereira arache. 



Of this armada Raju was soon advised : and fearing that it 

 would do him great harm in his ports, and also because in 

 truth he was weary of the war, he sought to sound the captain 

 in order to see if he would offer him peace, which he desired 

 greatly ; and as all these heathens live by opinion, considering 

 that it was to his prejudice, there being in his camp the am- 

 bassadors of several kings, friends of his, with whom he 

 desired to maintain his credit 6 , without telling what he had 

 determined, save to one person, beyond whom the secret of 

 that affair was not to go, he sent by him to throw some olas 



1 Letters he had written to the king of Portugal announcing the victory 

 at Johor : the homeward-bound ships were on the point of leaving Cochin. 



2 Both the manuscript and the printed edition have " Diogo " for 

 " Rodrigo " (c/. supra, X. x. v., p. 328, and p. 370 below). 



3 The manuscript has " Ferrao." 



4 The manuscript has " Balthezar." 



6 Both the manuscript and the printed edition have " Diogo" ; but 

 in chap. xv. below he is twice (pp. 370, 375) called " Domingos." 



6 Who these " kings " were, we are not told : they were probably 

 ome of the rajas of Southern India. 



