Council held by Alfonso d'Albuquerque with the Captains with respect to going to Goa.
Torre do Tombo. Corpo Chron. Part 2a, Maç 23, Doc. 190.
Thursday, which was the tenth day of the month of October, of five hundred and ten, the captain-major ordered all the captains of the king our sovereign to be summoned in Cochim, in order to hold a council with them, to which council there came those named below, and no others. This council was as to whether, whilst the ships of burden remained in Cochim taking in their cargo, it seemed good to them to carry all their crews with them to the action of Goa, or not.
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Fernan de Magalhāes said that it seemed to him that the captain-major ought not to take the ships of burden to Goa, inasmuch as if they went thither they could not pass this year to Portugal, since we are at the twelfth of October; and that, making their shortest course without touching at Cananor, nor at any other port, it was not possible to lay the fleet before the port of Goa before the eighth of November,[1]as the winds were now contrary for that place: and with respect to the crews, let his worship say whether it was well that they should go, that it seemed to him that he ought not to take them, since there did not remain time for them to lay out their money, nor to do anything of what was necessary for the voyage; and this said Fernan de Magalhāes.
The following gave an opinion:
Nuno Vaz, captain of the Rumesa.
Antonio da Costa. ..Rei Pequeno.
Duarte da Silva...Galé Grande.
∗Simāo Martins.
∗D. Joāo de Lima...Sta. Maria d'Ajuda.
- ↑ Albuquerque did not arrive before Goa till the 24th November. Correa, tom. ii, p. 145.
