_ 201 _ But Pero de Ataide, anxious to recount his own adventures, had neglected to relate the main point, namely the events that took place in India at the end of 1503, Lopo Soares would be informed about them a few days later at Malindi, by the sixteen survivors from that captain's caravel(A). In spite of the instructions received(B), it does not seem that the commander-in-chief took the time to meet the King of Malindi. They headed for the Isle of Angedive where the squadron found Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos, as well as António de Saldanha and Rui Lourenço who were wintering there while waiting to sail along the coasts of Cambay(C). Lopo Soares brought all these sailing 262-267 and Castanheda, I/54, p. 114-115; Barros, I/7-2, p. 262-263; Góis, I/74, p. 178-179). (A) BM Anonymous, p. 118; Castanheda, I/90, p. 192; Góis, I/93, p. 232; Barros, I/7-9+, p. 290 is the only one to write that there were six survivors. (B) Regimento de Lopo Soares, CA, III, p. 189-190; BM Anonymous, p. 118; Castanheda, I/90, p. 193. According to Barros (I/7-9, p. 290) Lopo Soares visited the king; according to Correia, he delegated this duty to Pero de Mendonça (I/2, p. 495). (C) António de Saldanha commanded a squadron of three ships which left Lisbon on 14th March 1503 with a mission to reconnoitre Cape Gardafui and the Estreito of the Red Sea. He went on board a ship that the author of the Anonymous Account from Florence called the "Cavaglio" (in Teixeira da Mota, op.cit., p. 30) and the Inventory of 1505 "A de Dom Nuno" (f. 12), no doubt Dom Nuno Manuel, Grand Intendant of the king (on this person cf. A.
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