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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. XX. 



Dec. X., Bk. x., Chap. xvi. 



Of how Manoel de Sousa Coutinho reached the coast of Ceilad : 

 and of the great devastations that he went making along it 

 until arriving at Columbo. 



Manoel de Sousa Coutinho having set out from Goa, as we 

 have said 1 , went pursuing his voyage without stopping for 

 anything until he had passed the Cape of Comorim, and along 

 the coast as far as the Island of Jogues 2 , whence he crossed 

 over to the other side, and made landfall below Manar to- 

 wards Cardiva : from there he dispatched a swift vessel to 

 the captain of Columbo with a letter, in which he begged him 

 to send him the modeliar Diogo da Silva and the arache Pedro 

 Afonso with their lascarins in tones, as he was waiting for 

 them in the river of Cardiva in order to go destroying every- 

 thing from there to Columbo. 



The letter reached Columbo in two days : and at once Joao 

 Correa got ready a foist and nine tones, in which went eighty 

 Portuguese and the modeliar es that he had asked for ; and 

 having set out from Columbo they went and put in at the 

 Abilao of the Jogues 6 , and disembarked on land, and entered 

 the village and totally destroyed and burnt it, and from there 

 went to the bar of Chilao, where was a garrison of Raju's troops. 

 And seeking to go ashore, they saw three banners with many 

 troops, whereupon they dissembled, and went on to a little 

 village, where they disembarked, and captured three blacks, 

 from whom they learnt the condition of the village of Maripo 4 , 

 which was near, and of the people that were there, because 

 they wished to give them a great chastisement, for the evil 

 treatment that they had accorded to the men of a fleet that 

 was wrecked there in the time of the count Bom Luis de Ataide , 

 which was going in succour to Ceilad, the captain-major of 

 which was Diogo Lopes Coutinho 5 . And learning that they 

 could attack without risk, they did so, and in spite of the 

 inhabitants entered it and sacked it, killing several and 

 capturing alive forty-eight persons, and seven vessels laden 

 with salt, which they had all ready to carry to Raju's 



1 See supra, p. 367. 



2 See supra, p. 356, note a . 



3 What Abilao represents, I do not know ; nor can I identify this 

 place, which evidently lay on the coast, south of Chilaw. 



4 Marippu is the Sinhalese name for the village of Ka^tekadu, 

 which lies at the head of the Mundal lake (see M. Lit. Reg. iv. 157, 



•215). 



8 See supra, p. 257. 



