_ 47 _ and for many years had not paid the tribute due. While these things occupied the beginning of September, the carracks of his fleet which had been wintering in Mozambique, and three others of the four which had left last March without a commander, arrived at the bar of Goa. Their captains were Henrique de Macedo, Baltasar Jorge, Lopo Ferreira, and the fourth captain, Vicente Gil, had been wrecked off the coast of Melinde at a place where all his men had been saved. The Governor began to pay wages for his fleet and to launch ships because he wanted to leave for Cochin soon, to arrange his ships and write to Portugal. D. Estevão da Gama, who was in Panjim as we have said, without consulting the Governor, asked the Chief Treasury Officer to let him have three oared vessels belonging to His Majesty to go to Cochin. The Governor was informed, and he said that he should be given everything he needed; and this was done. He sailed without taking leave of the Governor, who was busy with his fleet and dealing with many matters, since he wanted to leave very soon. Among the things he did was to accommodate the Jesuits, who until then had been in the hospital. When he discussed with the municipal councilors about how to house them, it was agreed that they should take over the seminary that D. Estévão had established in the Carrei-
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