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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
How the Ambassadors of the Xeque Ismael, and of the King of Ormuz, who were in Goa, sent word to the great Afonso Dalboquerque, desiring an audience: and what took place with them, and how he sent Kuy Gomes to the Xeque Ismael.
A few days before the time that the great Afonso Dalboquerque had made his entry into the city of Goa, there had arrived two ambassadors, the one from Xeque Ismael, and the other from the King of Ormuz, each one by himself with his embassy suite and his present of horses, and silk stuffs, and gold; for the Cabaio. But whereas they found he was dead, after the fall of the city, although it was the intention of the ambassador who came froui Xeque Ismael to proceed on his mission to the Hidalcão, the son of the Çabaio, according to the instructions he had received from his lord, nevertheless, in that he was a discreet man and understood the position of affairs, he took no notice of these instructions, but sent word to Afonso Dalboquerque begging that he would be pleased to grant him an audience.
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