_ 209 _ Pirez went first to Cochin and from there he set off in May for Bengal. Chapter: 183 After the governor had left Diu, Antonio da Silveira renewed the truce he had with Ali Khan and after this a letter arrived at Diu in reply to one that Khwaja Safar had sent to Cashm to obtain with more certainty information about the progress of the Turks towards India. The message confirmed that the armada was coming carrying armed men. He was very pleased at this, because it seemed to him that they would throw the Portuguese out of India, which was the thing he most desired as he had a deadly hatred for them, even though he professed to be their friend. He soon decided to go secretly to Surat with all his household and possessions; saying that it seemed to him only gossip that the Turks were coming as the King of Cashm and some merchants from Mecca had written him that here was no news of it there. In order to disguise his departure, he had a new nao loaded which had been recently build in order to send it to Tenassarin. Whilst this was being done, he sent his wives to Surat in the company of those of a leading Moor who was going there with all his household because the governor had taken his consulship at Diu away from him.
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