_ 502 _ to its captaincy, as he is such a soldier and a gentleman that he will know how to guard and defend it capably and use his possessions in this matter for the service of Your Highness. When I was about to close this letter Antonio Moniz, who was sailing with the fleet on the Cambay coast, arrived. He brought a nau that he had seized from the King of Cambay. This arrived laden with riches.(A) Martim Moniz guarded it in such a way, according to what the Controller of Finances Simão Botelho told me, that the lascars did not steal anything from him or remove a single item from the whole of the cargo. to an end. As Dom Manuel de Lime was to succeed da Silveira, he immediately took possession of the captaincy of Ormuz, relinquishing that of Diu, which the governor then offered to Francisco da Cunha. He was coming from Chaul where he had been captain: Gaspar Correia states: "He excused himself as he was very ill and wanted to go to Portugal to marry and house two poor orphan sisters that he had". Dom João de Castro then offered the fortress of Diu to Manuel de Sousa de Sepúlveda, who, hurt at not having been invited first, refused which made the governor very angry". (Lendas, IV, pp. 586-7). Finally, Dom João Mascarenhas agreed to remain an extra year in Diu. (A) Gaspar Correia reports that he brought 51,000 xerafins in gold. It was then that the Governor once again ordered the loan requested against the pledge of the board to Goa. The same Diogo Rodrigues who brought the money took it back again and the Governor recovered his famous pledge.
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