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leave the place with their arms, matches burning, banners 

 unfurled, drums beating, and should march with four pieces 

 •of artillery to Nossa Senhora da Vida, the General's quarters, 

 where they were to pile their arms ; and that the captains 

 should not be deprived of their ordinary arms, and that then 

 they with all the infantry should enter in in our place from 

 that position ; and that the men of war should let their clothes 

 remain in the houses of the inhabitants, in order that each 

 one might take his own, when they should embark ; that the 

 two Generals with their movables and servants should place 

 them in whatever place they wished, and they granted the 

 same to all the inhabitants and their families, and that for 

 the space of a year they might freely sell all the movables 

 that they could not or did not wish to take away, and they 

 granted to all at this time passage in their ships : to the 

 monks consequently, and that they might take all the articles 

 •of divine worship ; they requested however of all that no 

 one should publicly carry away jewels, gold, or silver, or 

 similar things, in order to avoid rash acts on the part of their 

 soldiers. All the above was agreed to with Adriano 

 Uvandremed, 39 the General who succeeded Giraldo Holfot, 

 who was killed in the siege by a carbine shot.] 



Chapter XXVI. 

 How the city of Colwnbo was entered, and the men of war 

 were sent to Negapatao. 

 On the 12th 40 of May, 1656, at three o'clock in the after- 

 noon, we left that city ; seventy -three 41 men of war, very 

 thin, and these were all that remained there, among them 

 being several maimed, without arms and legs ; and all looked 

 like corpses. We marched in single file through a crowd of 

 natives, who came from one side and another to look at us, 

 and as these were almost all from Candia, £our enemies] 

 they showed in their faces the feeling Ethat possessed them] 

 at seeing us in that condition. 42 We left the four pieces 

 behind at the gate of the city, as we had no one 43 to bring 

 them, and having arrived at N. Senhora da Vida 44 £the 



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