The great Afonso Dalboquerque, in this interview which he held with João Machado and the Venetian, became very much alarmed on account of what he was informed with regard to the Moors of Goa, although the information was not clearly expressed. And, in order to arrive at some determination in respect to his future actions in this matter, he sent for Timoja and narrated to him the message which he had received from the Hidalcão, and the reply which he had given. And after some conversation upon these subjects, he told Timoja that information had been given to the effect that certain of the chief Moors of the city were engaged in correspondence with the Hidalcão, and had communications with the Rumes who were in his camp, therefore he desired him to give him the benefit of his advice as a friend, as to the manner in which he ought to act in order to prevent this fire from bursting out into a flame.

Timoja replied, that he had now for some days ceased to repose any confidence in the Moors, because he had always considered that they were angry at beholding the city in the power of the Portuguese; and his advice would be, that Afonso Dalboquerque should order all the principal headmen, not only Moors, but Hindoos as well, to be collected together in the fortress, for in such times as these one ought not to confide in either the one or the other.