While the great Afonso Dalboquerque was expecting every day the arrival of Gronçalo de Siqueira, with the intention of taking advantage of his coming to determine finally as to his return against Goa,—when it was now the eighth day of the month of September,—Lourenço Moreno, captain of the ship Botafogo, arrived: he had come to be the factor of Cochim, and in company with him came João de Aveiro in the Bastiaina, and Lourenço Lopez, nephew of Thomé Lopez, in another ship; and upon the same day that they arrived, Lourenço Moreno went immediately to land to see Afonso Dalboquerque, and after delivering to him a packet of letters which he carried from the King D. Manuel for him, he informed him that Gronçalo de Siqueira had set out from Portugal with seven ships, having very good soldiers on board; and as they were all sailing along in company at the Cabo dos Correntes so fierce a storm came upon them that it had scattered all the ships, and he himself indeed, with the two ships mentioned above, had run before the storm and reached Mozambique, and remained there for several days;