The affairs of Goa being in the state that I have described, Mandaloy, Lord of Condal, wrote a letter to the great Afonso Dalboquerque, wherein he informed him that Balogi, Lord of the castle and lands of Pervaloy and of the kingdom of Sanguiçar, had put himself in communication with Roçalcão, a captain of the Çabaio, and with Melique Rabão, Lord of Carrapetão, and all three had sent their ambassadors to the Hidalcão, desiring him to furnish them with men, in order that, adding them to the forces they already had under arms, they might make a descent upon the territories of Goa and reduce them to obedience again; and that Balogi, who had been already in the interior at Banda with a large force, was there with two thousand men, raised at his own cost with the determined intention of defending that land on behalf of the Hidalcão, or to die in performing this service for his lordship; and earnestly begged him, Afonso Dalboquerque, to send him some reinforcement of men; and he, Mandaloy, on his part, would immediately deliver the lands to whomsoever should be sent, for he himself desired nothing more than a mere subsistence for the rest of his life.