_ 419 _ the Commander on many occasions to allow the “Frol de la Mar” in which I was travelling, to remain behind with the fleet that he has sailing with. Tristan da Cumba had no desire to do so, claiming that the King, in his instructions, forbade him to leave Afonso de Albuquerque any more ships from those that had come with him to leave Afonso de Albuquerque any more ships from those that had come with him with order to sail in the Red Sea. Moreover, since the King had forbidden him to do so, he had no intention of leaving Afonso de Albuquerque any, because, in the same section of the instructions, the King said what he wanted him to go to India with the rest of the fleet, because the Viceroy needed all of it to accomplish what he had been ordered to do. Later, at the time of Senhor Tristan da Cunha’s departure for India on 27th July last, Afonso de Albuquerque begged and pleaded that, since Tristan da Cunha did not wish to leave the nau with him, the Commander should lend it for a month, to accompany him to Diu and the coast of Cambay, where the King, was sending him to observe, trade and make peace. As this was on his way, and did not interfere with the voyage of the nau to India, Afonso de Albuquerque begged Tristan da Cunha as a favour, while the nau was not needed
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