The Names Of The Other Captains,
So Far As Have Come To My Knowledge, Were Nicholas Coello, Don Luis
Continho, Simon De Myseranda, Simon Leyton, Bartholomew Diaz, Who
Discovered The Cape Of Good Hope, And His Brother Diego Diaz, Who Had
Been Purser To Vasco Do Gama In The Former Voyage.
Of the caravels, Pedro
de Tayde[1] and Vasco de Silviera, were captains.
Arias Correa was
appointed supercargo of the whole fleet, and was ordered to remain as
factor in Calicut, having Gonsalo Gil Barboso and Pedro Vas Caninon as
his clerks. Two ships were to remain with the merchandize at Sofala,
where Loriso Hurtado was to be factor. In the whole of this fleet there
embarked 1500 men[2].
The general was instructed, besides settling the factories, that if the
zamorin would not quietly consent or give sufficient lading to the ships,
he should make cruel war upon him for his injurious conduct to Vasco de
Gama. If the zamorin consented to the establishment of a factory and
trade, the general was secretly to request him not to allow any of the
Moors of Mecca to remain or to trade in Calicut, or any other harbour in
his dominions, and to promise that the Portuguese should hereafter supply
all such commodities as used to be brought by the Moors, of better
quality and cheaper than theirs. That he should touch at Melinda, to land
the ambassador who had been brought from thence by De Gama, together with
a present for the king of that place.
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