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NOTES. 



1 Le Grand has altered this to " nuestra Senora d' ajuda" thus 

 substituting Spanish for Portuguese, and turning " Our Lady of Life " 

 into " Our Lady of Help "! 



2 Le Grand has simply " & qu'il n'etoit point terrasse," which 

 Lee translates " and that it was not sloped off from behind," which is 

 scarcely correct. The MS. used by Le Grand omits the words in 

 brackets. 



3 Lee, misled by Le Grand, makes Bibeiro state that the fascines 

 and earth were used for sloping off the bastion behind ! 



4 Le Grand's MS. has " estar alojado " (being lodged) instead of 

 " ter guarnico.' ' 



5 The thick brackets here, as in other places, mark omissions in 

 Le Grand's MS. 



6 In the original u fur adores." 



7 Compare the details given in Baldaeus. 



8 They were the yachts *' Maaght van Enkhuyzen " and " Workum." 



9 Chinese sampans, according to Baldaeus. 



10 Rather the night of the 11th. See note 12 . 



11 Baldaeus makes the Portuguese narrator whose diary he trans- 

 lated speak of " the Acouras," and the English translator has " the 

 gate of Acouras." 



12 This should be the 12th, according to both accounts in Baldaeus. 

 In Saar the date is given as " 2," — a printer's error, doubtless. 



13 Le Grand being puzzled how to connect this sentence with 

 what preceded it in his MS., not being aware that the copyist had 

 omitted a long passage, translates it as follows : — " & as the sea had 

 retired very far, they [the Hollanders !] had made a stochade, on ivhich 

 they had planted a battery of three pieces of cannon : & it was from 

 this battery that they gave the signal of attack." This is ingenious, 

 but of course utterly incorrect. 



14 This body of besiegers was led by Major van der Laan. 



15 These troops were led by General Hulft in person, and he 

 had to retire, being wounded in the thigh. 



16 Q r u market-place," praga having various meanings. Le Grand 

 translates it " place d'armes," which Lee renders " esplanade." 



17 This was Father Damiao Yieira. See Baldaeus. 



18 Following his defective MS., Le Grand connects this sentence 

 with the one that follows the portion enclosed in brackets, and translates 

 thus : — " ... so that having heard the disturbance that was taking place 

 on that side [Lee adds 'towards St. Thomas'!], he ran thither, and 

 having cut off the enemy who had advanced too far, he killed more 

 than three thousand of them ; and if our soldiers had been more used 

 to warfare, not a Hollander would have escaped " ! 



