_ 48 _ ra dos Cavaleiros to collect together young orphans and newly converted Christian children, and to indoctrinate and teach them. So, they moved there and were given possessions, and they set up a church as well as the place and circumstances allowed, where they celebrated the divine offices and administered the sacraments with charity, helped by the citizens of Goa. They gradually grew both in numbers and in merit, because later, as will be told, they founded on the same site the famous college of S. Paul, which is as great as any in Europe. When everything was ready for the Governor's departure, he embarked on 15th October. But first he dispatched the Secretary, António Cardoso, to Ormuz, giving him an order to investigate Martim Afonso de Melo Zuarte, Captain of the fortress. From what I have heard from fidalgos of the time, the Governor wanted to find fault with him because they were not on friendly terms, and it is said that he secretly issued a writ to the Secretary so that if he found the Captain guilty of the complaints he carried, he was to send him to Goa as a prisoner, and he would remain there until the next appointee arrived. But the truth is that, he had received many complaints against the Captain from Ormuz, as a result of which he ordered that he should be investigated.
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