_ 58 _ and captain of one of the ships, was missing. On learning that he had fled, and that he could not be anywhere but in the Maldive Islands, he decided to send someone to look for him, because the islands were peaceful at the time, but it would be possible to cause trouble and create a rebellion. The men he sent were Dom Fernando Morroi, captain of an ocean-going ship who would make a circuit of the islands and João Goncalvez de Castelo Branco, captain of a qalley, who would go among the islands. He gave them both instructions to find Jeronimo de Sousa, saying that he did not want them to return without having him in the hold. After this the governor embarked to make his departure and then Dom Goterre heard from heathens on the mainland that four commanders of the Hidalcan(A) were ready to enter the island when the governor left, so Dom Goterre appealed to the governor to let him have more than the four hundred men that he was leaving, and more artillery than that which remained there. To this the governor replied that the men and artillery which remained were sufficient. When the Arabs pressed him, so that he had to leave the country areas of the island, (A) A hostile King.
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