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Of how Raju secretly decamped, setting fire to the arrayal : and 

 of how our people went out against him : and of what befell 

 them during the pursuit, and of what happened besides. 



Raju, — seeing the arrival of Manoel de Sousa with so many 

 ships, and of part of the armada of Dom Paulo de Lima, who 

 was expected daily, and was coming after gaining a victory 

 over a king so great as the one of Ujantana 1 , and after destroy- 

 ing a city of his so powerful and strong and so full of troops 

 and artillery ; and calling to mind the harm that he had 

 received from us, before such great succours had come, and the 

 destruction that had been caused to him on one and the other 

 coast by the armadas of Manoel de Sousa and Thome de Sousa 

 de Arronches ; and that so great a force as had reached them 

 was not for the purpose of being shut up in the fortress ; — 

 picturing to himself his total destruction if he waited for our 

 people, took a resolution to withdraw, without telling anyone. 

 And for the greater dissimulation he determined to deceive 

 our people and put them off, in order to be able to withdraw 

 in greater safety : and so forthwith on that day he commanded 

 to throw a letter into the fortress by means of an arrow, in 

 which he begged the captains to give him leave to send 

 ambassadors to them to treat of matters of importance, be- 

 cause he was undeceived, and saw that just as they had not 

 been able to capture Ceitavaca from him, so he could not 

 capture Cochim, not to speak of Columbo. This letter was 

 carried to the captains ; and all having met in council, the 

 matter was debated, and they agreed that the ambassadors 

 be heard, as at least it would serve as a diversion until the 

 arrival of Dom Paulo de Lima. Upon this reply there came 

 to them three or four ambassadors with their attendants, 

 who were well received by the captains ; and the first thing 

 that they asked was, that the artillery should not be fired 

 from the fortress as long as they were there ; and presenting 

 their credentials, all the captains of the succours being present, 

 they said that their master Raju had commanded them to 

 say that he had a very great festival, which would come on 

 three days from then, the which he was forced to celebrate 

 in Ceitavaca, and that during that time he would accept 

 terms of peace ; and that if not, there was no need to speak 

 of it, 



1 This name is here, as in other places in the printed edition, incor- 

 rectly given as " Viantana." It represents Malay Ujungtanah (see 

 Hob. -Job. s,v.). 



