No. 42.— 1891.] 



SIEGE OF COLOMBO. 



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38 Le Grand had to make the best sense he could out of the 

 fragments of this sentence left by his copyist, which he did by adding 

 to them the opening sentence of the chapter as follows :• — "I should 

 never have done, if I tried to recount all the details of this siege, the 

 principal circumstances of which have already escaped my memory ; 

 but I hope that the Father Damien Vieira Jesuit, who performed in 

 this siege every duty of a Soldier & a Captain, & who distinguished 

 himself more than anyone, will be able to give us a relation so much the 

 more exact, as there was not an action of importance in which he was 

 not found among the first." The hope expressed here is fathered on 

 Ribeiro by the worthy Abbe, who, as he tells us in his preface, found 

 Father Damiao's journals among the documents lent him by the 

 Count d'Ericeyra. 



39 Adriaan van der Meyden. 



40 Le Grand alters this to the 10th. 



41 Le Grand alters this to sixty-three. Baldaeus says "14 Com- 

 panies and 36 Captains," while the Portuguese narrative in Baldaeus 

 says " 90 soldiers and 100 armed inhabitants, including officers." 



42 In consequence of Le Grand's copyist having omitted the 

 words " our enemies," the Abbe makes Ribeiro say that the natives 

 " seemed to have some regret at seeing us leave," which is the very 

 opposite of Ribeiro's statement. 



43 Le Grand alters this to " neither oxen, nor mules, nor horses." 



44 Le Grand has " la chapelle de notre Dame de la vie" which Lee 

 enders " the chapel of Nuestra Senora della Vida " ! 



45 General van der Meyden and Major van der Laan. 



46 Lee translates Le Grand's "avec grandes demonstrations dejoye "' 

 as " very kindly," which alters the sense entirely. 



47 Le Grand abbreviates this sentence as follows : — " He changed 

 colour on hearing this reply, & engaged for some time in conversation 

 with the Officers who were near him." 



48 Le Grand renders this incorrectly as follows : — " The King 

 of Candy was present at this siege with forty thousand men. He 

 asserted that the Hollanders were bound to hand this fortress owr to 

 him, & he even sent persons to sign the Capitulation in his name, but he 

 could obtain nothing." Le Grand joins this sentence to the concluding 

 portion of the chapter, his MS. having a long omission. 



49 In the last chapter of his book Ribeiro states that at Ruwan- 

 wella, which the King of Kandy granted to them for that purpose, 

 there were settled not less than seven hundred Portuguese with their 

 families ; and that in all the villages where they settled they had their 

 priests to carry on their religious rites. 



50 In original passar gados. Gados strictly means cattle or sheep, 

 but is here used figuratively. 



51 Le Grand connects this concluding portion with the first 

 sentence of the preceding paragraph (see note 48), and translates it as 

 follows : — " & on the 19th he fought a battle which he gained & 



