The affairs of India were in the state which I have described, when the Marshal D. Fernando Coutinho arrived at Cananor, having set out from the kingdom of Portugal as chief captain of a fleet of fifteen sail. And in Cananor the Marshal, who proceeded to take up his quarters the very day he landed with Lourenҫo de Brito, found the great Afonso Dalboquerque, who had already been confined there for three months by order of the Viceroy.

Afonso Dalboquerque was much pleased at the arrival of the Marshal, for besides that he was his nephew, he felt certain that on his coming the dissensions which had arisen between himself and the Viceroy would come to an end, and he recounted to him all the insults that had been shown to him, and all the rest that had happened to him. The Marshal, because his time was short, in which to perform what had been appointed for him to do before his departure for Portugal, was unwilling to be delayed, and proceeded to embark on the following morning, taking with him Afonso Dalboquerque, in obedience to his commands, as Captain general of India; for it was to Afonso Dalboquerque, as his governor of India, that the King D. Manuel had ordered the Marshal to deliver all the provisions and specie which he carried.