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gave an account that the reason of their coming out was only to cut 

 and fetch some Faggot-Wood for the repairing of the Bastions of 

 S. John, S. Stephen, and S. Philippo ; and that they had made 

 betwixt the two former a retrenchment, in case they should be forced 

 to quit the Bastions." Here, it will be noticed, the statement is made 

 that the wood was required for repairing the bastions. Doubtless this 

 was the case, the bark being utilised for matchcord. 



29 Le Grand has transposed this opening sentence to the latter 

 part of the chapter, joining it on to the reference to Father Damiao 

 Vieira. (See note 38.) 



30 Le Grand's copyist has altered "prego" to 11 tempo,'" making 

 nonsense. 



31 A characteristic omission of the Le Grand copyist. 



32 This is an example of the apparently objectless omissions which 

 occur all through the Le Grand manuscript. 



33 In Book I., chapter XVII., Ribeiro says : — " Seeing that we 

 are speaking of these animals [elephants], it is not right that we 

 should pass them over in silence : at least we should say something, and 

 because [many]* have written of them. We shall do so only of one 

 which we had in our possession with sons and grandsons : this was the 

 handsomest animal that can be imagined, and was used by us only in 

 any urgent need, because there were others that performed the ordinary 

 service, and we made use of him solely for hunting the wild ones of 

 the forest : this one was called Ortela, which also endured the famous 

 siege of Columbo, carrying palm trees by night and day for us during 

 the seven months that it lasted, to repair the ruins caused by the 

 continuous firing of the batteries ; and of fifteen that we had, he alone 

 was not eaten, the others being eaten. The King of Candia sent to 

 take it from the Hollanders who had it at Betal, and if they had 

 asked of him great sums for it he would have given them all in order 

 to have such a possession, which brought His Majesty every year 

 more than fifty thousand f patacas ; and as some will hold this state- 

 ment to be fabulous, before going further it will be right to explain in 

 what manner." He then proceeds to describe the manner of 

 capturing elephants, in which Ortela took a leading part. 



34 Father Damiao Yieira. 



36 The Portuguese narrative in Baldssus gives the names of nine. 



36 The Portuguese narrative in Baldseus says " about six." 



37 According to Baldaeus's translation of the Portuguese account, 

 they were " the Captain Don Diego de Vasconeelhos, with two School- 

 Children, Don Constantino de Meneses and Diego Jaques, both less 

 than fourteen years old." 



*Le Grand's MS. has "m os ." ffor muitos) ; the printed edition has no 

 governing word. 



f By an error Lee has " 15,000 crowns." 



