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as luck would have it, the covered drain under the Fort 
gateway was being repaired by the Public Works Department, 
or rather it had just been repaired, but the water would not 
run out through it. Mr. Denham, the Assistant Government 
Agent, and I accordingly had the covering of the drain taken 
off. When this was done it was found that some of the broken 
pieces of stone of which it was composed had coats of arms, 
or portions of coats of arms, and letters on them. 
A stone was noticed in the pavement of the gateway with 
the date 1687 on it. We therefore had a number of the 
stones forming the pavement removed, and piecing them 
together with some out of the drain we found that we had 
discovered the upper portions of two Portuguese tombstones. 
Plate No. 5. 
The first of these consisted of a block of stone with a 
rounded top having a coat of arms surmounted by a helmet 
and crest very finely and deeply cut upon it."' Unfortunately 
the stone is broken oflE short just below the coat of arms, and 
only the words 
COVA E, 
which mean "grave is," with part of two letters under- 
neath, one a T, can be made out. I regret fco say that all our 
efforts to find the rest of the stone have proved unavailing. 
It is probably built into some of the modern repairs of the 
Fort somewhere. 
Plate No. 6. 
The other stone also bears a coat of arms,t but the carving 
is much rougher, the stone itself being of a diflEerent 
description, not so well adapted for this kind of work as the 
other, just as in the case of the Jaffna stones described 
above. This stone was in five pieces, four of them being 
very small, and it took a great deal of digging about in the 
* Mr. Donald Ferg-uson wrote to the eminent scholar and antiquarian 
Senhor Sonsa Viterbo with respect to the identification of the arms in this 
plate and in other plates. He identified the arms in this plate as those of 
Aranjo and Ribeiro quartered. 
-j- Identified by Sr. Viterbo as the arms of Alcacova and Carneiro 
quartered. 
