_ 159 _ who had killed his son; however, since they had put before him the question of the King’s good name, he was ready to relinquish his position in front of them and give it to Nuno Vaz Pereira instead. The latter was to be followed by Jorge de Melo Pereira, then by Pero Barreto de Magalhaes, and then the others. As they were on their way to Dabul, Paio de Sousa went out to raid an Arab village and kill the population without the Viceroy’s permission. As it happened, there was a captain at the head of many men in the village, and they suddenly fell on him, defeating our forces and killing Paio de Sousa. After his death the Viceroy gave the command of his galley to Diogo Pires, and Diogo Pires’ to a man called Diogo Mendes who had come from Portugal to serve in the fleet of Jorge de Aguiar. From here the Viceroy went to Dabul harbour, where he arrived on the 30th of December. This is in the Deccan Kingdom and lies at 18 degrees to the north, next to a rocky mountain-range which stretches along a beautiful river. The river meets the sea at this point, and its width is equal to that of a cannon’s range of fire. The city itself extends into the interior as far as the distance between the Gate of the Cross in Lisbon and the limekilns at Boavista; and its width along the shore is equal to the distance between the Ribeira Gate and the Gate of St Anthony in Lisbon.
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