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the city. On the land side, again, was erected a large bastion 

 entitled S. Stephan, on which likewise stood sixteen metal 

 cannon. After this a small bastion called S. Sebastian, near 

 which again a large gate, the King's gate,* led into the city, 

 and not far therefrom was another bastion named Madre Des, 

 or the Mother of God, on all of which bastions, round about 

 the city, were bells, with which when anything happened 

 it was speedily made known in all parts. From the bastion 

 of Madre Des there was a large brook near the house 

 Hieronymus, where also a battery was thrown up, and two 

 cannon mounted thereon loaded with grape, together with a 

 small bastion called Capoccin, from the Capuchin monastery 

 situated near it. Further on stood the powder-house, and 

 near it the great bastion of Hieronymus, and again a large 

 gateway by name Mapan, arched above, which also had its 

 cannon on it ; lastly, the bastion S- Augustin, also so called 

 from the Augustine monastery adjoining it. Where the 

 ditch has an end was a stone breastwork, by name S. Jago, 

 about an eighty-foot long, extending as far as a rock, on 

 which, as at Punte de Galle, one can fly a flag. Outside 

 the city were the monasteries ; first, that called Acqua di 

 Lupo\ ; second, the monastery of S. Sebastian, near it a 

 small chapel ; thirdly, at a mile's distance therefrom, the 

 monastery of Miser icordia." 



If these descriptions are compared with each other, and 

 with the plans of Colombo given by Baldseus and Le Grand, 

 and the more elaborate one in Barretto de Ressende's Librodo 

 Estado da India Oriental, 1646 (Sloane MS. No. 197 in the 

 British Museum), a number of discrepancies will be observed, 

 which, with our present knowledge, it is impossible to 

 reconcile in every case. For instance, if we tabulate the 



This should be " the Queen's Gate," the Portuguese name being Porta 

 da Rainha. By a most incomprehensible blunder Baldaeus in his own 

 narrative, and in his translation of the Portuguese diary, makes it " the gate 

 of Rajjulia" 



f This represents the Portuguese Agoa do Lobo ("the wolf's pond"), 

 which the Dutch adopted and adapted as Wolvendaal (" the wolves' dale"). 

 The natives still call the Wolvendal church Adilippu or Adirippu Palliya 

 (or kovil). 



