Two days after the departure of the captains, the great Afonso Dalboquerque and the Marshal paid a visit to the King of Cochim and gave him an account of this their determination, and told him how the King D.-Manuel had ordered the destruction of Calicut. And they desired him earnestly that he would be willing to go in person with his army to help them in this enterprise, and attack some place in the interior, where the Çamorin would be forced to go to the rescue. But if he could not so go, at least he should write to some lord of the mountainous country, who was on amicable terms with him, to carry out such a manœuvre. And because they had no certain information of the internal condition of Calicut, after that it was currently reported in Cochim that an expedition was being got ready against the city, they begged him greatly of his favour to despatch certain Brahmins secretly to find out where the Çamorin was, and what sort of army he had, and if he had made any preparation of defence near the landing-place.

The King lauded very highly the determination at which the captains had arrived, for all the dissensions that existed between himself and the Çamorin were owing to the great friendship which he showed towards the King of Portugal.