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also to some captains for abroad, with whom we shall continue. 

 And the first shall be the galleon with the succours and provi- 

 sions for the fortress of Columbo, in which went as captain- 

 major of the men of war Dom Francisco de Noronha 1 , who 

 took one hundred and fifty soldiers divided between these 

 two captains, Luis Fernandez de Taide and Manoel de Taide ; 

 and in this same galleon embarked Nuno Fernandez de Taide 2 , 

 provided with the captaincy of that fortress, there having 

 come away from it Dom Pedro Manoel 3 ; and this galleon set 

 sail on the 3rd of May [1600] 



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Dec. XII., Bk. v., Chap. i. 



Of the things that took place this year in Geildo : and of the 

 victories that our people gained, and the tranqueiras that 

 they made against the enemy. 



After the gaining of the victories that we have described 

 over the tyrant Dom Joao , and after the succour had reached 

 Dom Jeronimo d'Azevedo which, as we have said, the count 

 viceroy sent him in September 1599 4 , he mustered his army, 

 and proceeded to the village of Mutapali 5 , half a league from 

 the kingdom of Candea, where he erected a fair-sized fort of 

 wood with its fillings and ditches capable of containing the 

 whole arrayal. This fort he made owing to its being midway 



1 Cf. supra, XII. m. ii., p. 433 ff. 



2 See supra, p. 227, note \ 



3 See supya,XII. n. i. (p. 428). In a letter dated 22 January 1601, 

 the king of Spain writes to the viceroy : — ' ' Dom Pedro Manoel , who was 

 stationed as captain in Columbo, wrote me that he had come away 

 from that fortress in order to be present with the count viceroy in the 

 second expedition against Cunhale, to which the count went in person. 

 And he also says, that what was gained in Ceilao could yield a great 

 part of the expenses of that conquest. I commend to you to inform 

 yourself of this particularly from the said Dom Pedro as well as from 

 other persons of experience of that island, and to recover the returns 

 therefrom in aid of the said expenses." 



4 See supra, XII. in. x. p. 440. In a letter dated 31 January 1602, 

 the king of Spain tells the viceroy that he is informed that in August and 

 September 1599 the conquest of Ceylon was in danger of destruction 

 owing to lack of men, and that it was sustained solely by the good 

 procedure of Dom Jeronimo : wherefore he urges him to send the latter 

 all the succour possible. 



5 Mottappoliya in Deyaladahamuiia pattu, Kinigoda korale (see 

 Keg. Rep. 37; Knox 177; Boc. 705, 706; Rib. n. xx.). 



