_ 173 _ criterion for Cabral's voyage. Fragment 19 is silent in this respect, but Document III commands a friendly treatment of all shipping, before a marginal addition recommends this attitude expressly towards that from ?Mocha and Angedive to Calicut. Thus, the policy to be pursued in the East emerges gradually and was soon to be modified. It is interesting for this reason to compare the policy of peace and amity recommended to Cabral in Document III of the Standing Orders of 1500 with the facts that emerge, for example, from the narrative of da Gama's second voyage, published by Christine von Rohr in 1939. Gama's hostile attitude of two years later betrays effectively the ill success of Portuguese attempts to institute commerce with India peacefully, and the new direction of an inevitable policy of force which was to culminate in the foundation of the State of India in 1505. In this respect, if the letter of Gaspar from India, which is contained in Maço 22 of the Fragmentos, is also part of the documentation which contributed to the instructions for Cabral's voyage, it must be concluded that the programme of the 1500 expedition was an experiment made in the light of previous knowledge of the commercial situation in the East, which was well
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