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The count 1 continued in dispatching 2 a 



galleon to Ceilao 3 , as captain of which went Rui da Costa 

 Travacos, with soldiers, munitions, and money for that 

 conquest 4 



Dec. XII., Bk. i., Chap. xiii. 



Of the things that took place this summer in the island of Ceilao : 

 and of the great victory that our people gained over the king 

 of Uva and the captains of the tyrant of Candea Dom Jodo. 



The tyrant Dom Joao, undeceived as to being able to 

 prevail against our people, by the many victories that they 

 had gained over him, and the last had been the defeat of his 

 troops in Corvite, as we have related above, seeing that by the 

 garrisons and fortifications that our people had formed against 

 him on his frontiers of the Four Corlas and Dinavaca he could 

 not in those parts carry out what he had determined, took 

 other means, which was, to send and attack our arrayal, which 

 was scouring the parts of Gale and Mature, forty leagues from 

 those other tranqueiras 5 and from the place in which the 

 general always resided 6 , thinking that owing to the distance 

 of the place he could not succour our people with as much 

 readiness and numbers as was necessary, there not being a 

 great force in that arrayal, and with it broken, our people 

 would be left with less to persecute him, and he with more 

 courage to carry his intention forward : against which he dis- 

 patched a prince called Madune Pandar 7 , and the rebel Simao 



1 The Conde de Vidigueira, D. Francisco da Gama, viceroy of India. 



2 In September 1597. 



3 The usual annual supply galleon. 



4 Cf. infra, p. 421, note 2 . 



6 The distance here given is a gross exaggeration. 



6 Where this was, does not appear : perhaps it was at Rasapana, near 

 Malvana (see C. A. S. Jl. xi. 470; Lee's trans, of Le Grand's Ribeiro 49). 



7 Couto makes no other mention of this man, who was at intervals a 

 source of trouble to the Portuguese during nearly a quarter of a century. 

 Sa y Menezes (C. A. S. Jl. xi. 467) says that he was a descendant of 

 the great Mayadunne ; while the document in Col. de Trat. i. 224 states 

 that he was of royal blood, and a cousin of Dona Catharina's. The 

 former writer in his fifth and sixth chapters describes the Portuguese 

 campaign against "Madune" in 1619-20, which ended in his defeat 

 and flight to Kottiyar, where the Danish admiral, Ove Giedde, for a 



