_ 404 _ had been hoping that when the fortress was finished he might deserve to stay in the fortress as captain. This post he gave to Jorge Barret de Castro, as he carried a warrant from the king providing him with a command of some fortress. Afonso de Albuquerque gave him this fortress on a condition that he should only be there until the arrival of his nephew Don Afonso de Noronha, who was in Socotra. Because Jorge Barreto did not want to accept this condition Afonso de Albuquerque gave the post to Don Antonio de Noronha, who agreed to be there until the coming of his brother, when he would make his way to Socotra. It seemed to everyone that this was a device to enable his nephews to have these two fortresses. As they were brothers they could not be divided from each other. Thus was the report which these three captains presented to the leading men in their ships they persuaded them on the following night to raise their sails and take off for India. On going out of the mouth of the trait they were fortunate enough to capture two naos, one from Cambay and another from Chaul, both loaded with much merchandise, and with these seizures they arrived before the Viceroy Don Francisco. When Afonso d’ Albuquerque saw that they were two days overdue he ordered Diogo Fernandes Pereira,
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