No. 60. — 1908.] couto : history of ceylon. 



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After this victory the general returned to the fort, with 

 which he continued ; and so much haste did he make with it 

 that in a month it was entirely finished, with its ditches and 

 counterditches, and he provided it with a captain with four 

 companies of soldiers, and with food and munitions for a long 

 time, because he was afraid that the enemy would attack it 

 with a larger force, they expecting a succour of Badagas from 

 the opposite coast 1 : and besides this he ordered all the forts 

 that he had in those parts to be reformed, so that they might 

 all be provided for whatever might befall them, which took 

 place until there reached him the succour that the count- 

 admiral sent him 2 by Dom Francisco de Noronha and Nuno 

 Fernandez de Taide as captain of that fortress of Columbo, 

 of which he was at once put in possession, after having re- 

 formed the posts, as we have said, and provided them anew, 

 and made new payment to the soldiers. And he ordered all 

 to proceed to the districts of Catu Cambala Corla 3 , the fron- 

 tier of the Seven Corlas, in order to finish extinguishing some . 

 conflagrations of the rebels that still existed in those parts ; 

 and everything that our people found there they demolished 

 and devastated, whereupon the enemy betook themselves into 

 the interior of the Corlas, without appearing again. 



All having been put to flight, the general ordered to be made 

 in fche village of Catu Cambala a fine fort of wood of two faces 

 with their fillings and ditches, which was done, whereby the 

 enemy were intimidated, and our people could invade their 

 territories more freely, and assail them. And because whilst 

 occupied with this work the general was informed that the 

 enemy had once more reformed in the Seven Corlas with the 

 intention of again disquieting our people, the general ordered 

 to attack them two leagues within their territories as far as the 

 place where they were, having cut the roads, and formed in 

 them their earthworks and intrenchments so strong that they 

 were inside them in great confidence. And learning that our 

 men had left behind them many of their villages burnt, and 

 that they had carried off many of their people captive, they 

 sallied forth to attack our men, who were already retiring, and 

 fell upon the rearguard with great fury ; but they met with 

 such resistance that they retreated in flight with many killed : 



1 Gf. supra, p. 427, note 2 . 



2 See supra, XII. iv. xiii. (p. 441). 



3 The 1645 edition has 44 Catrem " for " Catu "; the 1788 edition has 

 commas after 4 4 Catrem " and 44 Cambala." Of course Katugampola 

 Medapattu koral6 of the Katugampola hatpattu is meant (c/. Roc. 

 684 ff.). 



