_ 293 _ greatest honour and do what I wish, is to leave Aden very quickly, so that you are able to arrive at Diu or Bassein at the end of April and keep watch over all these fortresses, and go to their assistance with fighting men if they are needed. You will be doing them a favour because if some ill feeling reigns among neighbours, they will calm down knowing of your arrival. If you find them all at peace and calm, without your having to delay anywhere or for any time, you are to make for Goa, where I shall be. Remember that you will be doing an act of great chivalry in coming into the city very early and before storms and misfortunes occur, although many men of India regard it as an act of courage to reach the coast very late and to come into the port almost totally waterlogged. I am not one of these, nor are you to be, but we are among those who take the trouble to keep the fleet and the men secure and bring them in safely. However, I order you, if you cannot be in Diu or Bassein at the end of April up to the second of May, to make directly for Goa, and you are to part company in the Gulf with the ships from Bassein and Diu so that each can go home. Item: You are taking four agreements in Portuguese; in two of them there is a clause which requests the fortress
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