_ 171 _ inventory of the late captain’s possessions saw that Alonso Anriquez wanted to enter the tower, he came out carrying appear and prevented his entry. Hearing the din, Simão Botelho ran to help with all the people who were in the church attending the funeral of Rui Vaz, and he asked what he was trying to do. To this he replied that the casados had given him incorrect advice and had told him to go into the fortress and that he would be its captain. When Simão Botelho heard this, he told him that he had a paper from the Governor which he had to open so that all would soon know who was to be the captain. This they did and they learnt that it would be Simão Botelho. He immediately ordered Alonso Anriquez to set sail with his men, which he did, continuing the voyage on which he was taking 40 to 50 men. And he authorized other voyages of Miguel da Alba to Bengala; by one of his overseers named Diogo Meireles also to Bengala and from there to Ormuz, by-passing India; by D. Pedro de Mahezes to Chromandel and then to Malacca; by Diogo Soares to Patane having already authorized another voyage to the island of Madegascar so that he would stay abroad for three years because there was nothing else for him to do there; another to Bengala and thence to Malacca by Francisco de Sa who was empowered to act as an envoy
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