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who had left the fortress in charge of Manoelda Veiga, factor 

 and alcaide mor. There came also Dom Luis Dalmeida his 

 brother, Ayres de Saldanha, and other fidalgos. And the 

 viceroy learning that Dom Pedro Dalmeida had come there, 

 leaving his fortress (on the top of other past escapades at which 

 the viceroy Dom Constantino had been annoyed), he would 

 not see him, but on the contrary ordered him to be taken to 

 the fortress by the chief justice, and that he should be sent as a 

 prisoner to one of the passes of the island 1 : and the vessels 

 that had come in his company he ordered to be equipped anew, 

 and divided them amongst Ayres de Saldanha and others. 

 And on the eve of our Lady, the 7th of September, he set 

 sail with a fine fleet of twelve galleys and ten galliots and 

 seventy rowing vessels including foists and catures. 



The captains of the galleys were : — The viceroy, of the 

 royal galley ; Dom Antonio de Noronha Catarras, of the 

 galley Santiago ; Bastiao de Sa, of the galley Sad Luis ; 

 Martim Afonso de Miranda, of the galley Sad Miguel ; Andre 

 de Sousa, son of the controller of the cardinal Dom Anrique, 

 of the galley Vitoria ; Fernao de Sousa de Castellobranco, 

 of the galley Conceigad ; Goncalo Falcao, of the galley Ghagas ; 

 Lionel de Sousa, of the galley Monserrate ; and Dom Lionis 

 Pereira and Ayres Falcao in two others. 



Those of the galliots were : — Duarte do Soveral, whom the 

 viceroy took in order to go over to his vessel if necessary ; 

 Dom Antonio Manoel ; Francisco de Mello, brother of the king's 

 huntsman ; Dom Jorge de Meneses, who was afterwards chief 

 ensign of the kingdom ; Ayres de Saldanha ; Martim Afonso 

 de Mello, nicknamed Hombrinhos 2 ; Jorge de Moura ; Fernao 

 Gomez Cordovil ; Lourenco Pimentel, in a galliot that had 

 belonged to the Rooms ; and others. 



The captains of the foists were : — Dom Joao de Castello- 

 branco, son of Dom Pedro de Castellobranco, who was captain 

 of Ormuz, and brother of the Conde de Villanova ; Anrique 

 de Sa ; Francisco de Sousa Tavares the Lame ; Garcia 

 Rodriguez de Tavora ; Dom Francisco Dalmeida, who was 

 afterwards captain of Tangier ; DomFilipe de Meneses, brother 

 of Dom Joao Tello, who was afterwards one of the governors of 

 the kingdom ; Alvaro de Mendoga ; Pero de Mesquita ; Pero 

 Peixoto da Sylva ; Nuno de Mendoga ; Dom Paulo de Lima ; 

 Nuno Furtado de Mendoga ; Dom Payo de Noronha ; Fernao 

 de Crasto; Tristao de Sousa, son of the governor Martim 



1 1 do not know what Dom Pedro's escapades were, to which Couto 

 refers. He was released from his imprisonment, and sent back to 

 Bacaim to complete his term of office, in April 156L 



2 " Little shoulders.' 1 



