_ 420 _ by the Viceroy, to allow me to go with him in it, since I would not be losing time from my journey. When Tristan da Cunha realized that the nau would not lose time, he gave orders for me to sail with Afonso de Albuquerque along the coast to Diu and Cambay until such time as I considered Tristan da Cunha might arrive in Inda, and the Viceroy might need the ship. Since Afonso de Albuquerque did not have any provisions for the fleet, he was obliged to collect them on the coast of Ormuz. I arrived with him to help collect these provisions and to serve both him and the King. Now he is in this port of Muscat, where he has provisions for two years. From here he wants to go to Ormuz, where he wishes to take me. If I go there, I cannot be in Inda at the time that Commander Tristan da Cunha ordered my, nor can I be there to serve His Lordship the Viceroy, to whom I am subject and bound. Therefore, I requested Afonso de Albuquerque, in the name of the king and of the Viceroy, to grant me permission to leave here for India, so as to be there at the proper time to serve the King and the Viceroy, under whose command I came and continue to be.
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