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from the field, leaving behind them on it many dead: and 

 thus Simao Pinhao had time to visit the forts of Corvite and 

 Batugedere, to which had retired those that had been opera- 

 ting in the parts of Dinavaca, as we have said, which he 

 provided very well with everything. 



From here the general ordered Pinhao to proceed to the 

 districts adjoining Malvana, where the rebels and the principal 

 leaders of that rising now were. And the general himself 

 likewise set off to another part, so that they got them in 

 between them, and surrounded them in such a manner, that, 

 having no resource, they surrendered, and returned to their 

 obedience ; and the general ordered those that had been the 

 heads of that rising to have theirs cut off 1 ; and afterwards 

 went on little by little executing the most guilty, whereby he 

 entirely extinguished that conflagration that had been devour- 

 ing the land. The tyrant went putting all his strength into 

 the corlas, in order to give the general something to think 

 about, and to divert him from his intent : wherefore it was 

 necessary for him once more to send the arrayal against 

 that enemy, and in many engagements^ that they had there 

 with his troops, our people always had the victory, and 

 retired with many captives and prizes. Our arrayal that was 

 in the tranqueira of Balitote 2 was likewise not idle during this 

 time, because the king of Huva sent to attack it with more 

 than six thousand men ; but the captain Salvador Pereyra, 

 who had already been advised thereof, before he arrived sent 

 forth the native lascarins out of the tranqueiras to lie in am- 

 bush in the jungles, so that at the moment when they attacked 

 it they should fall upon them in the rear, and rout them, of 

 which they were afraid, and for that reason were unwilling 

 to invest the tranqueira, but were ten days near it, attacking 

 it by skirmishes, from which they always retired scathed. 



And that he might leave nothing unattempted to divert and 

 embarrass the general, the tyrant of Candea sent at the same 

 time to attack the tranqueira of Manicravare a captain of four 

 thousand men, which they did with great determination; 

 and for the space of half a day they carried on with our men 

 a brisk interchange of harquebusery, by which many of them 

 were left stretched on the field ; and such bad entertainment 

 did our men give them, that on the same day they withdrew, 

 leaving the field strewn with many mutilated corpses. 



The king of Huva, who was near our fort of Balitote, seeing 

 that the time was spent without profit, and that he was in 



1 The original has this play upon words. 



2 See supra, p. 431, note 3 . 



