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of that fortress and of the whole of India. All being ready 

 and in order, the viceroy caused Manoel de Sousa to set sail 

 on the 4th of February with two galleys, in one of which went 

 the captain-major, and in the other Dom Jeronimo Dazevedo, 

 and sixteen foists, the captains of which were Diogo de Sousa, 

 Clemente Daguiar, Ambrosio Leitao, Nuno Alvres Pereira, 

 Simao Rolim, Fradique Carneiro, Manoel de Macedo 1 , Simao 

 Brandao, Pedro Velloso, Joao de Sousa, Manoel Cabral da 

 Veiga, Miguel da Maia, Manoel Froes, Francisco Martins 

 Marinho, Gonsalo Fernandes Coutinho, and Dom Felipe 

 prince 2 of Candia 3 : in all these ships there went six hundred 

 men, all picked soldiery of India, and many young fidalgos 

 reindes*. Having set sail, they went pursuing their journey 

 with fair weather, on which we shall leave them 5 in order to 

 continue with other matter. 



Thome de Sousa de Arronches having set out from Columbo 

 with the six ships and four tones to wage all the war he could 

 along the whole coast of Ceilao 6 , the first place at which he 

 disembarked was one called Coscore 7 , which they burnt 8 , 

 and captivated eleven persons, among whom was a Chingala 

 young woman lately married ; and after having completed 

 their work they embarked. Being on the point of leaving, 

 there came in great haste a sturdy Chingala man, who seemed 

 a rustic, and without waiting for anything got into one of 

 those ships in which that Chingala woman was ; and betaking 

 himself to her, they embraced each other with many tears 9 , 



1 The manuscript, by an oversight, omits the names that follow, 

 down to " Cabral." 



2 The manuscript has the absurd blunder " Pereira." 



3 This is the only place in the Tenth Decade in which this man is 

 mentioned. Whether or not his flight from Kandy in 1580 was related 

 by Couto in his stolen Ninth Decade we cannot tell (see supra, p. 258) ; 

 but that the lost Eleventh Decade contained a good deal about the 

 prince we may be certain (see infra, p. 389, note 4 ). 



4 " Griffins," in Anglo-Indian parlance (see Hob. -Job. s. vv. '* Griffin " 

 and Reinol "). 



5 Couto returns to them in chap. xvi. (p. 376) infra. 



6 See the beginning of the preceding chapter (p. 362). 



7 The manuscript has " Coscori." Kosgoda is meant. 



8 In X. x. xi. (p. 358) we were told of a force under the command of 

 the arachchi Pero Affonso destroying Beruwala, Welitota, and other 

 places as far as and including Weligama. We shall now read of Thome 

 de Sousa's armada's completing the work of destruction as far as and 

 including Dondra. 



9 The printed edition adds " and lamentation." 



