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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 Goncalo de Sequeira reached Cananor; of the council held by the great Afonso Dalboquerque with the captains, respecting the return to Goa; and of the news he had concerning the death of the King of Cochim, and what he did thereupon.
When all these affairs which I have related had passed away, there arrived Gonçalo de Sequeira at Cananor, on the sixteenth day of the month of September, of the year ‘ten:—he had set out from the kingdom of Portugal for India as chief captain of seven ships—and at his arrival, Afonso Dalboquerque was greatly pleased, and returned many thanks to Our Lord, because at the very juncture when he had determined to make another attack upon Goa, no less than fourteen ships had arrived in India, wherein were about one thousand five hundred Portuguese, with whom he could undertake anything, however great it might be. And of these fourteen ships the chief captains were Gonçalo de Sequeira, Diogo Mendez de Vasconcelos (as has already been related), and João Serrão, with three vessels which the King D. Manuel sent to examine and sound the entrance into the Straits of the Red Sea.
The same day that Gonçalo de Sequeira arrived he went at once to land-to converse with Afonso Dalboquerque, who came down with all his captains and fidalgos, who were there, to meet him on the quay, and escorted him to the fortress.
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