_ 194 _ On his arrival the Governor made himself ready to go to Portugal. At this, because of the obligation I had towards him to serve him in the same capacity as that In which I had served the Count, I embarked on the ship ‘Sao Antonio’, which was the same in which the Viceroy, Dom Antonio had come. Loaded and made ready, she left Cochin on 6th February of the year 65(A), and for the first fifteen days we had reasonable weather. But once we had passed the equator, we were much troubled by heavy rain and calms; and on 11th March at thirteen degrees south, we suffered contrary weather which forced us to lie to, for it was impossible to make way with this weather, which came over the bows. This went on growing so that it became a fierce storm, which caused us to heave to until the 15th of the month, when we suffered such high seas that with the great pitching of the ship the bows went totally under the water as far as the capstan. And when this sea surged up, the foremast was split from the planks and the topmast was broken. In the middle the sea passed over the stem, it swept away both poop galleries and tore the upper structure of the poop (A) The reference here is to the year 1565.
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