As soon as the news of the imprisonment of Joao de Christus was known in Cochim, all gave themselves up for dead, for they could not divine the reason of his imprisonment. But Afonso Dalboquerque, who did not know all of these uproars, proceeded to the Viceroy's, and begged him very earnestly of his kindness to give orders for the release of João de Christus, for he was so good a man that he could not believe that there was anything in him for which he should deserve that imprisonment.

The Viceroy replied very dryly that he should let justice take her course, for the Vicar-General would take good care to order his release, provided that in the indictment which was to be laid against him he should find no cause of blame; as for himself he knew nothing about it. Afonso Dalboquerque replied:—“Sir, I do not understand this justice of yours, apprehending, indeed, João de Christus without any reason, when he is a very virtuous man, and yet not ordering the hanging of Domingos Pousado, for I know very well that he was yesterday caught in the act of stealing two hundred cruzados, but as he was in Antonio do Campo's house, nothing is said about him.”