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 &lowast;Sebastian de Miranda.. .Galé Pequeno. Fernan de Magalhāes. Jeronimo Teixeira...Sta. Maria do Campo. &lowast;Jorge da Silveira. Francisco de Sousa...Boa Ventura. &lowast;Manuel da Cunha. &lowast;Garcia de Sousa...Sta. Clara. Francisco Corvinel...Sant–Iago. Lourenço de Paiva. Antonio Real, alcaìde-mór and captain of Cochim. Gonzalo de Sequeira, captain-major of the fleet which had just come from Portugal. Affonso d'Albuquerque said at the end what he determined to do.

(N.B. Albuquerque said at the end of these opinions that he was determined to sail on the following day, the eleventh of October, with the captains who wished to accompany him. Therefore, we are at the twelfth of October, means that that day was close at hand, and not that the council was held on that day.)

Gaspar Correa says, tome p. 138:

"When this was thus ended, the governor told all the captains that he was going immediately, and that he would sail from Cananor with all the ships and men that he could take, and go and take Goa, as he trusted in the Lord's Passion that He would assist him; and he gave them notice that so he would act, and not occupy himself with anything else: and he gave them all this notice, because he trusted in the Lord, that he should be able to send news to the king in these ships, that he was taking his rest inside the city of Goa: and, as it was already October, whoever had the will to serve the king, and win such great honour, as it would be to find oneself in such a noble action, would still have time enough to witness the action and return to embark in