After Pero Dalboquerque had set sail from Goa (as I have already related), he proceeded on his voyage straight to Çacotorá, with intention of taking in fresh supplies of water there; and in his passage across the sea he sighted three ships and boarded them; but as they proved to be bound from Calicut, carrying letters of safe-conduct from Afonso Dalboquerque, he let them go and left them to follow their voyage. On board of these ships were all the merchant Moors who had been carrying on their business in Calicut, and with them their wives, children, and property, for the the king had decreed their expulsion, as has already been shown. Pero Dalboquerque, after letting these ships go, shaped his course for Çacotorá, and cruised about in the adjacent parts for the whole of the summer, during which time he took ten very richly-laden Moorish ships, which were bound for the straits. And as the season was now far advanced, and the favourable winds would not hold out sufficiently long to enable him to go and have a look at Adem, as Afonso Dalboquerque had instructed him, he tacked out and stood over to Ormuz, at which port he arrived at the end of May; and as soon as he had cast anchor in the bay, the King Terunxa, who was then upon the throne, —for his brother Ceifadim had died of poison—sent Hacem Ale, a Moor born at Grada, to pay him a visit on board ship; and by him he sent word to say that the city was at the service of the King of Portugal, and that he considered himself that king's vassal.