How the great Dalboquerque arrived at Coulão, and what passed with the governors of the land

When the great Afonso Dalboquerque was just ready to set out, a paráo arrived from Coulão, and in it a servant of Antonio de Sá, the factor, with a letter from him, wherein he said that he had come on a good errand, for there was certain news that thirty ships had left Calicut bound for Choromandel.