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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
Of the Council which the great Afonso Dalboquerque held concerning the voyage he should make; and how it was decided that lie should go to Ormuz; and of the news which reached him when he arrived at Mascate.
The great Afonso Dalboquerque having thus arranged all the affairs of India, and supplied the fortresses with all things they required, and having a fleet ready prepared of twenty-six sail, of which were captains the following:—
D. Garcia de Noronha,
Pero Dalboquerque,
Lope Vaz de Sampayo,
Diogo Fernandez,
Aires da Silva,
Simão Dandrade,
Duarte de Melo,
Vasco Fernandez Coutinho,
Antonio Ferreira,
Fernão Gomez de Lemos,
Antonio Raposo,
Ruy Galvão,
Jorge de Brito,
Jeronymo de Sousa,
Silvestre Corço,
Manuel da Costa,
Pero Ferreira,
João Pereira,
Fernão de Resende,
Francisco Pereira,
João Gomez,
João de Meira,
Nuno Nunez Raposo,
Pero Corço
Fernãodianes, and
Vicente Dalboquerque,
who was captain of the ship Nazareth, having his uncle Afonso Dalboquerque on board,—proceeded to embark on the twentieth day of February of the said year, and after they were embarked, he summoned all the captains to his ship, and with them D. João Déssa, captain of the fortress of Goa, and D. Sancho de Noronha, chief Alcaide, there being present also Nicoláo Ferreira, ambassador for the King of Ormuz, who had arrived in September last from Portugal, bearing the king's reply to his mission.
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