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Pussella he cut off the retreat to Columbo of the Portuguese 

 force, which would have been destroyed had not the captain 

 of the fort at Matara, Dom Fernando Mudaliyar 1 (Samara- 

 konrala), hastened to its help, and by creating a diversion 

 enabled it to reach Columbo in safety 2 . The captain of 

 Columbo, Pedi*o Homem Pereira, was this year (1595) re- 

 moved 3 , his place being taken by a man not much the inferior, 

 as regards brutality, to Dom Jeronimo himself 4 , Thome de 

 Sousa de Arronches, whose doings, as captain-major of the 

 coast of Ceylon, have been chronicled by Couto above 5 . The 

 garrison of Columbo appears to have suffered great hardships 

 at this time owing to lack of provisions 6 , and the soldiers 

 generally were greatly discontented 7 . 



Domingos Correa, having recovered from a wound received 

 in the above-mentioned encounter with the Portuguese 8 , 

 in 1596, accompanied by his younger brother Simao Correa, 

 who had also revolted, marched with his army to Galle, and 



1 Regarding whom see M. Lit. Reg. iv. 165. 



2 Rajavaliya, u.s. " The Pussella " mentioned is apparently Pus- 

 wella in the Hewavissa korale, Weudawili hatpattu. The Portuguese 

 had, in their retreat to Columbo, to take a rather roundabout route. 



3 Possibly for suspected complicity in the disaster to Pero Lopes de 

 Sousa (see p. 401 supra). A royal letter of 13 February 1597, 

 printed in Arch. Port. -Or. iii. (705), shows that his character was not 

 above suspicion ; and we learn from a royal alvard of 20 March 1601, 

 printed in the Arch, da Rel. de Goa (5), that a judicial case had been 

 instituted against him for some reason not stated. 



4 A royal letter of 13 January 1598 (Brit. Mus. Addit. 20861) 

 says that Dharmapala had written to the king complaining of the 

 behaviour of Dom Jeronimo and Thome de Sousa, who had treated 

 him badly, used indecent language to him, misappropriated his rents, 

 &c. (see infra, p. 428, note 3 ). 



5 X. x. xiv.-xv. (pp. 367-75). 



6 Cf. Arch. Port.-Or. i. ii. 27. Prom the royal letter cited in note 4 

 above we learn that Pedro Homem Pereira had lent twenty-four 

 thousand serafins for providing the needs of the fortress. 



7 The Goa chamber, in their letter of 15 December 1595 {Arch. Port.- 

 Or. i. ft. 27), speak of the garrison as being " inimical and little obedient 

 to their captain-major," and refer to the hardships the soldiers had to 

 endure. 



8 Rajavaliya 99. 



