After that Francisco Pantoja had sailed away, Timoja proceeded to the great Afonso Dalboquerque with the principal men and nobles of the land, as well Moors as Hindoos; and they told him that, in order that the course of things in Goa should remain in the same order and ancient custom in which they had always been hitherto, it would be necessary that all should understand the method which they were to practise in regard to the payment of dues. For, they alleged, the Çabaio, after he had become Lord of the kingdom of Goa, had doubled the amount of taxes, at which proceeding every one had been annoyed, and on this account many Hindoos had gone away to settle in divers parts; for anciently they used to pay a hundred and fifty thousand xerafins; but afterwards the Çabaio had doubled this tax; and that they were afraid lest his Lordship, following this practice which he had found them labouring under, should oblige them still to pay this increased taxation; and that they begged him of his kindness to endeavour to arrange this matter in such a manner that the people might be able to get their living, and yet pay something: for it was but reasonable to expect, now they had become the servants of so great a king as the King of Portugal was, that they should enjoy more liberty, in some respects, than they had hitherto possessed, when they lived under the rule of the Çabaio, a tyrant who had been ill-disposed towards them.