_ 25 _ Where they saw one another and remained in great friendship, and after the Viceroy had departed from Goa it happened that there came to Cochim one Roman ruler of the King of Cochin, and whilst going from the city to his town, from a house before leaving the city itself, he was shot at with a musket wounding him in the arm and Killing one of his Brahmen, and then he commenced to kill all the Portuguese and Christians who came along on the road that he met up to Cochim de Cima, and in this turn they slew Amrique de Macedo former Captain oz, in a ship that was being repaired in this town. Thus it is said that the slain, between Portuguese and native Christians, numbered twenty or thirty and others say more: the King of Cochim from the other side proceeded at once to pacify masters, and had his Ruler apprehended, who was a very badly disposed man, and unfriendly towards us, but he escaped after being arrested, and after a few days the King of Cochim came with the Prince his nephew to our Fortress, and ordered some seven Naires who were guilty to be brought to him and before the Captain and men had them put to death by the dagger. Ceylon was strictly besieged and in great distress for food, the Viceroy had arranged to send Dom Francisco
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