The great Afonso Dalboquerque perceiving the desires of the king D. Manuel for universal peace in India, which he had indeed frequently expressed in his letters, for if a perpetual warfare were maintained it could not be well prosecuted because of the great expenses which it produced, laboured earnestly as long as he lived to maintain peace with all the kings and Hindoo lords of those parts, maintaining with them a constant intercourse, sending his messengers to them and offering to place at their disposal the fleets of the King of Portugal for the destruction of the Moors, and the casting them out of the country, which indeed they had wrested from the native rulers, especially the King of Narsinga, to whom not once but many times he sent Portuguese ambassadors, desirous of procuring his friendship and begging him to turn his attention to operations calculated to crush the Hidalcão and the King of Decam; and with all the other Hindoo kings from the Cape of Comorim up into the interior country, not only along the sea-shore, but also into the midland tracts, he also held friendly relations with a view of attracting them to be on peaceable terms with the King of Portugal, sending ambassadors to them in that king's name, and offering them his fleets and his forces.