_ 335 _ galleys, but he first sent Gomes da Silva as captain-major of a galley and five foists to protect the coast of Malabar. This was a sufficiently large fleet for the moment, and he left at the beginning of January 1555. At almost the same time [Easter Sunday], the carrack "Espadarte" arrived in Goa. It belonged to the company of Dom Pedro de Mascarenhas, which had gone to winter in Ormuz, and whose captain was Fernão Gomes da Sousa, who had been appointed to the captaincy of Cochin. Extract The provincial of the society chose the teaching priest Father Gonçalo, a learned man of exemplary conduct and as his companion, Brother Fulgencio Freire, a former factor of Bassein. The viceroy ordered a galliot to be equipped to take them, appointing as its captain Fernão Farto because he was the oldest and most experienced one that there had been in the Strait up till then. He left Goa in February with Manuel de Vasconcelos, whom the viceroy had made the captain-major of a fleet which he had ordered to equip to sail in pursuit of the pirate Zafar. This was made up of three ocean-going ships and five foists, the names of whose captains, apart from the general, never came to my knowledge.
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