_ 152 _ On arriving there Antonio da Silveira was handed over charge of the fortress. The King of Ormuz then complained to him regarding a brother of his age eighteen who had tried to kill him. This was on the instigation of his mother, who thought the brother was better than he and preferred him to be king. One night he had been found under his bed with a dagger and had therefore ordered him to be seized. As it was such an important matter and to avoid dissension in the kingdom, he did not wish his brother to enter legal procedure as he merited. The king therefore asked that his brother that Antonio de Saldanha was there no more, seizures were made, and he then set off for Goa, where he delivered the money, he was carrying. Chapter: 51 In the year 1532 the armada coming to India from Portugal was divided into two parts. The first was commanded by Estevao da Gama the son of Don Vasco da Gama, Count of Vidigueira and Admiral of the Indian Ocean. He had been appointed Commander of Malacca in the place of Garcia de Sa and under his captaincy was Vicente Gil, the ship owner, whose nao they were sailing in. The other captaincy was that of Don Paulo da Gama the brother of Don Estevao, also appointed to the command of
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