_ 216 _ But although he felt uncertain, he wanted to find out why the enemy weren't storming the stockade as before. Tristan da Cunha's servant, who was one of the fortress carpenters saw that he wanted to find an interpreter and offered to make a trap outside the stockade, where he hoped to capture one of the enemies, if any of them came there. In order to attract their attention, the captain ordered forty riflemen to march towards Cannanore where the enemy were encamped. When they saw our men many of them ran to fight them and kill them. Our men went back towards the place where the trap had been dug, and when they got close to it turned round to fact the enemy twice, after which they pretended to run away. The enemy were taken in and pursued them, so that their leader fell into the trap. Our men saw this and went back to attack their opponents, making them run away. They then took the man who had fallen into the trap and brought him before the captain, who asked him why the enemy had stopped attacking the stockade and what they were planning to do. The man replied that they had withdrawn because they could not harm us, but that he knew nothing else. And since this warrior was wounded the captain gave orders for him to be treated. A few days later an envoy arrived from the Prince of Cannanore who
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