At the time that the grand Afonso Dalboquerque was riding at anchor in the river of Goa, suffering all these hardships which I have detailed; with his forces prostrated by sickness and his supplies of food very much reduced, and all the while the weather remaining so foul that there was no means of any one of them getting over the bar, information was brought to him that for many days past a certain Ruy Diaz, a man-at-arms, had been in the habit of entering into the apartments of the Moorish women whom he had taken prisoners in Goa. When he learned this, fearing lest Our Lord should visit him with some severe punishment unless he showed himself capable of appreciating the dangers of this situation, he summoned before him Pero Dalpoem, the Ouvidor, and impressed very strongly upon him the need of privately obtaining information concerning the progress of this business (and to assist him he appointed as his scrivener Lourengo de Paiva to be secretary); and if they should find Ruy Diaz guilty, he bade them arrest him and proceed against him in accordance with the rales of justice.