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CHAPTER I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

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How he arrived at Cananor at the beginning of December, in the year fifteen hundred and eight: and required the Viceroy to deliver up to him the government of India, as the king D. Manuel ordered in his instructions, and what took place thereupon.

The great Afonso Dalboquerque, on his arrival at Cananor, as I have mentioned, found the Viceroy there making his fleet ready to go and seek the Bumes, who were at Diu; and as the Viceroy had already learned by Fernao Soares and Ruy da Cunha, captains in the fleet of Jorge de Aguiar (who had arrived but a few days before), that the King D. Manuel had ordered him to return that year to Portugal, leaving Afonso Dalboquerque as Governor of India, he was not much pleased with his arrival, nor was the other, either, pleased at seeing how good a treatment the captains who had deserted him at Ormuz had experienced at the hands of the Viceroy; and thenceforward great dissensions began to grow up between them.

After the lapse of some days, Afonso Dalboquerque went to see the Viceroy, and told him, in the presence of Fernao Soarez and Ruy da Cunha, that since the King D. Manuel had ordered him to proceed to Portugal, and all the letters and official documents came directed to himself, as Governor of India, he desired that lie would hand the office over to him, according to the King's instructions, for they were already at the beginning of December, which was the proper time to start, and he had the ship Betlem, wherein he could make the voyage with great comfort, and six other ships to convoy her.

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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774
, pp. 1 - 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1877

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