_ 189 _ revealed to him that it was my intention to enter the Red Sea and attack Aden. Thus, the best plan would be to allow the naus to load up so that we could welcome them with all their riches at the mouth of the Red Sea. This is how my nephew, Dom Garcia, did it. I had already embarked with the whole crew when he arrived at the sandbar of Goa. In all, we were one thousand seven hundred men. Four hundred remained in Goa, eighty in Cochin and eighty in Cannanore. Our Lord gave us fair weather and we did what Your Highness will later see in more detail. Sir, order the letters that they wrote to you from India to be brought now and judge whether they give you an account, in this manner, of the affairs of India or if they write to you as rivals of your Commander-in-Chief, envious of his work and his service. At times, this is how some act because they are offended by his punishment and reproaches, which they deserve for their misdemeanours at other times because they ask me for what I am unable to give them. Having left Calicut, one of the naus was lost in Pandarane before they departed and having proceeded as far as Socotra, they were hit by a storm, which also hit us, with winds from the south and south-southeast.
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