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confines of them, two leagues from our arrayal, without daring 

 to go before the tyrant. Which being known to those in the 

 tranqueira of Bali tote, they sallied forth by night in good 

 order, and in the dawning watch fell upon him with such an 

 uproar, that they put him to flight, and made him once more 

 betake himself to the jungle, and went pursuing him, and 

 burning many villages, hamlets, and pagodes : whereby the 

 inhabitants of the corlas, undeceived as to the tyrant's being 

 able to defend them, submitted themselves to our obedience 1 . 



Dec. XII., Bk. hi., Chap. x. 



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At the same time 2 he 3 also dispatched the pro- 

 vision galleon for Ceilao, of which there went as captain 

 Manoel Rodriguez the Genoese 4 , and he sent in her two 

 hundred men as succour ; and as captain-major of them Dom 

 Bernardo de Noronha and the troops divided among four 

 captains, who were, Simao Ferreira do Valle, Pero Peixoto 

 da Sylva, Luis d'Antas Lobo, and Baltesar Pereira de Castel- 

 branco 



Dec. XII., Bk. iv., Chap. xiii. 



At this same time in which the count admiral dispatched 

 these ambassadors of the king of Travancor, he did the same 



1 In two letters, both dated 25 January 1601, the king of Spain 

 mentions the good success that Dom Jeronimo had had in Ceylon, as 

 reported by himself and by the viceroy, the latter of whom he charges 

 to send the additional troops needed to finish the conquest. The Goa 

 chamber, however, in December 1599, wrote to the king as follows 

 (^4. P.-O. i. ii. 63-4): — " The conquest of the island of Ceilao is in the 

 condition of which we advise your majesty, and will be as long as your 

 majesty does not provide a captain-general and sufficient force to come 

 from that kingdom chosen to make an end of reducing it all to the 

 service of your majesty, because at present it serves only to consume 

 bit by bit men and money without other effect than giving strength 

 to new rebels to make war on us with as much harm as experience 

 every year plainly demonstrates to us." 



2 In September 1599. 



3 The count viceroy. 



i Gf, infra, XII. v. viii. (p. 445). 



