_ 184 _ standing at the entrance to the port where they were practicing their deceit and double-dealing, so as to learn more about the different parts of the ship, what they were carrying, and so as better to guard the seashore. With the fortress in Goa finished, I made ready in the month of April, bound for the Straits, while the caravel and the fustas remained in Calicut. I had instructed Diogo Fernandez to wait for me there until the middle of May. If I had not returned by the middle of May, he would know that I had arrived in Ormuz on time. If he did not find me in Muscat or on that coast, he was then to go to Ormuz and ask for the tributes. Would to God, that I had not taken this route because time was already running out. Anyway, I arrived in Goa and left behind some of the people who had come there, together with the “Rei Pequeno”, the “Santo Espirito”, the “Rumessa”, a new nau in dry dock, a galliot, two fustas and one of the small boats from Goa, which I gave as a settlement to certain married men for their marriages. From there, I came to Cannanore, where I left behind some more people and having sailed from there, I came to Cochin, where I left the “Cisne”, the “Ajuda Grande”, the “AjudaPequena”, the “Rosario”, the “Graça” and the “São Tomé”, a nau built in Cochin, as well as their captains, gentlemen, noblemen and mariners who
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