"[the King] ordered Dom Joao Pereira to be the captain of the first [fleet] that was made of four ships. He was the father of Dom Martinho Pereira, that in the time fo King Dom Sebastiao ruled the kingdom, and he came for the captaincy of Goa in the nao Frol de la Mar in which he sailed on March the 4th. The other captains were Vasco de Paiva in the Santa Barbara, Diogo Brandao in the nao Santa Clara, and in Sao Joao Dom Francisco de Noronha that was lost at Cape of Good Hope. After, on April the 6th sailed in the admiral ship Cisne, the captain Dom Goncalo Coutinho, that also had the captaincy of Goa, and Simao da Veiga in Sao Roque, and in the nao Bom Jesus Nuno Furtado."

in "Conquista da India per humas e outras armas reaes, e evangelicas em breves memorias de varões illustres e feitos maravilhosos em huma e outra conquista (Códice 1646 da Col. Egerton - Museu Britânico)"