_ 251 _ sheltering in Surat, he organised ten or twelve ships, in which he went to station himself at that bar with the other caravels. When Jorge de Mendoça the captain of Chaul also received this news, he quickly armed ten or a dozen extra ships in which he went to join Francisco de Sá. Almost twenty days of September 1554 passed in this way and on the twenty-third of the same month, Pedro Mascarenhas appeared at the bar of Goa as Viceroy of the State of India.
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