_ 141 _ He was to take it to Mozambique and from there the “St. John” would sail for India, to bring the Viceroy back to Portugal. As his subordinate captain, he was to take another nobleman a nephew of his, whose name was Duarte de Lemus, and who went in a small ship, the “Santa Cruz”. The other captains who were to stay with Jorge de Aguiar were; Tristao da Silva, who went in the “Madanela”, a cargo-ship (he was to take it to India so that the governor might give him two galleys posted there, together with other ships which the king had assigned to Jorge de Aguiar’s fleet). Vasco da Silveira who went in a ship called “0 Rosario, with Diogo Correia and his brother Pero Correia; Francisco Pereira Pestana, who went in the “Lionarda”, to serve as captain of Quiloa, and whose ship would then be taken over by Jorge de Aguiar, the other captains went in cargo ships, Vasco Carvalho in the “Santa Maria do Castelo”, Alvaro Barreto in the “Santa Maria”, João Rodrigues Pereira in the “Bota Fogo”, and João Colaco in the “Judia”. Before this fleet departed, the king dispatched another, which consisted of four ships to India. Its commanderin-chief was Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, and he was to go and discover the city of Malacca, from which there came a great deal of clove and drugs, as he had been informed.
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