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Camões traveled on the vessel São Bento, of Fernão Álvares Cabral's fleet, which sailed directly from Tagus on March 24, 1553. During the trip he passed through the regions where Vasco da Gama had sailed, faced a storm on the Cape of Good Hope where the three other ships of the fleet were lost and landed in Goa in 1554. He soon enlisted in the service of viceroy Dom Afonso de Noronha and fought on the expedition against the king of Chembé (or "da Pimenta"). In 1555, succeeding Noronha, D. Pedro Mascarenhas ordered Manuel de Vasconcelos to fight the moors in the Red Sea. Camões accompanied him, but the fleet did not find the enemy and went to winter in Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

Probably by this time Camões had already begun writing the Os Lusíadas. When returning to Goa in 1556, he found D. Francisco Barreto in the government, for whom he composed the Auto de Filodemo, which suggests that Barreto was favorable to him. The first biographers, however, differ on Camões's relations with the ruler. At the same time, an anonymous satire would have appeared to publicly criticizing the reigning immorality and corruption, and it was attributed to Luis de Camões. Since the satires were condemned by the Ordenações Manuelinas, it is presumed Camões had been arrested for it. There was even the thought that the arrest occurred due to debts contracted. It is possible that he remained in prison until 1561, or he was convicted again before that, because, assuming the government of D. Francisco Coutinho, he may have been freed, employed and protected by the viceroy. It is believed that he has been appointed to the role of Provedor-mor dos Defuntos e Ausentes to Macau in 1562, serving from 1563 to 1564 or 1565. At this time, Macau was an European trading outpost still in development. The tradition relates that there he would have written part of the Lusíadas, in a cave, which later received his name.

On the voyage back to Goa, it was shipwrecked, according to tradition, at the mouth of the Mekong river, in which only he and the manuscript were saved. This event inspired the famous redondilhas Sobre os rios que vão, considered by António Sérgio the backbone of Cameronian lyric, which are repeatedly cited in the critical literature. The trauma of the shipwreck, as Leal de Matos said, reverberated more deeply into a redefinition of the project of Os Lusíadas, it becomes perceptible from Canto VII, which is indicated also by Diogo do Couto, his friend, who partly supported the writing. Probably, his rescue took months to occur, and there is no record of how this happened, but Camões was taken to Malacca, where he received a new arrest warrant for the misappropriation of the property of the deceased entrusted to him. The exact date of his return to Goa, where he may have remained imprisoned for some time, is unknown. Couto says that in the sinking died Dynamene, a Chinese damsel for whom Camões fell in love, but Ribeiro and others claim that this history must be rejected. The next viceroy, D. Antão de Noronha, was a longtime friend of Camões, who had found him in Marrocos.