After the setting out of these ambassadors to the Xeque Ismael, D. Garcia de Noronha, perceiving that there was but little work yet remaining to be done upon the fortress, begged permission of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, his uncle, to go to Portugal, but as Afonso Dalboquerque found himself indisposed with a very weary illness, and also because he felt the great value of his personal assistance and service, he was unwilling to accede to the request; nevertheless, D. Garcia, being very greatly desirous of returning, urged his suit so strongly that at length it was granted, but very unwillingly. So he dispatched him on the twenty-ninth day of August of the said year [1515], furnishing him with all authority to load his vessel, and with him he sent to the king D. Manuel a basin, cup, and drinking vessel, and a belt and dagger of solid gold, which had formed part of the present sent to him by the Xeque Ismael, and some caparisons for a horse, made of crimson plates, with the head-piece ornamented with gold inlayingwork, and a saddle ornamented with silver, and a skirt of mail, and a piece of felting cut out and coloured, which although of little price was a fine thing to look at;