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Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his Viceroyalty Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
The King our sovereign, Dom Manuel, was very mindful, with the great regret which he felt in his heart, of the treachery which the King of Calecut had committed towards Pedralvarez Cabral, who, when he arrived from India, at once related it to him, and he had promised to send him again with a much larger fleet, and well equipped, in order to make war upon Calecut, and take vengeance on it, since lie had more right on his side. With this recollection, as the time had arrived, he ordered large ships to be prepared for lading; and they were ten in number, into which was put much beautiful artillery, with plenty of munitions and weapons, all in great abundance, and supplies of everything most fitting for the voyage and their return to the kingdom; and they carried good men-at-arms, and captains, and gentlemen of birth, and Pedralvarez Cabral went as captain-major. All this was done and ordained by Vasco da Gama, whom the King charged with doing it all, for in the affairs of India the King ordered that he should do everything. When the fleet was quite ready to depart to Belem, and the King was one day talking about the affairs of the fleet, and of how well equipped and well supplied it was with everything, the King said: “Everything is much to my satisfac tion, but I pray the Lord that Pedralvarez may be as lucky with this fleet and voyage as Dom Vasco was with his; because, although we know Pedralvarez to be an excellent man, he is not very fortunate in affairs of the sea.”
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