No. 60.-— 1908.] couto : history of ceylon. 



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Dec. X., Bk. x., Chap. xix. 



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The viceroy being occupied in the dispatch of the affairs 

 of Maluco and Columbo, whither he dispatched a galliass 

 laden with provisions, munitions, and ten or twelve thousand 

 parddos in money, of which there went as captain Pero Vas, 

 who left Goa on the 20th of April, shortly afterwards the 

 viceroy fell ill of certain fevers, that appeared not to be 

 dangerous, and of which little account was at the time made, 

 but as they were mortal, on the seventh day he departed this 

 present life on the 4th day of the month of May of this year 

 1588 1 



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1 On the opening of the letters of succession, it was found that Ma 

 thias de Albuquerque was nominated as governor : but, as he had left 

 for Europe, the governorship fell to the next nominee, who was Manoel 

 de Sousa Coutinho (see Linsch. ii. 200-4). 



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