_ 27 _ cates as they were our friends, but it is held for certain that this was some dissimulation, owing also to Dom Francisco Deça Captain of Malaca having written to the Viceroy, that there was some presumption of a siege, due to that fleet going out so powerfully prepared and not having any thing to call it out in that part, where it had been sent to, which was to Jantanaa, hence, for this reason as well as for awaiting the arrival of Gomes Baneto, and of a galleon of one Simão de Cunha, an inhabitant of Goa who had both wintered in Malaca, and who had to depart very soon in order to take the ships that come for the Kingdom, and up to the thirtieth of December. I mean January, nothing had come from Malacca, nor had any news arrived of its having come to the coast, there was apprehension that she was besieged, and with some trouble, which may our Lord in His Mercy avert, and bring to these ships that are here bringing no post, and one of them bringing “Frol de la Mar”. I judged right to give an account of these things to Your Highness, as also did it seem right to Dom Diogo de Menezes Captain in Chief of the Fleet, to send a man of those that come from India, to Your Highness in order [to] give information respecting some of the things of India, should you desire to Know them, this individual being
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