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445 



Dec. XII., Bk. v.. Chap. viii. 



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The count continued making haste with the other armada 

 that he had to send to Malavar ; and with that for the north, 

 and Malaca, and with the provisions and succours for Ceilao. 



And on the same day 1 there set sail the provision 



galleon for Ceilao, of which there went as captain Manoel 

 Rodriguez the Genoese' 2 , to whom had been granted the 

 voyage ; and in her went one hundred and fifty soldiers, and 

 as captain-major of them Pero de Mendanha, and Martini 

 Cota Falcao went as captain of a company of soldiers, and 

 Diogo de Souza de Meneses of another. And the count sent 

 much money, munitions,, and other provisions, because always 

 at the beginning and end of the summers he went on recruiting 

 that conquest as best he could. 



1 30 September 1600. 2 See supra, XII. in. x. (p. 440). 



