Enrique Became a Dato Laut Dalam

Datuk Shamsudin Kamari, Director of Malaysian Historical Society believes that after Magellan died in Mactan war and the massacre that took place in Cebu, Enrique was free went back to Malacca. Since Malacca was still under Portuguese at that period and he was a man on the lookout, he decided to join the Sumatran community who resided in Negeri Sembilan and disguised himself as Dato Laut Dalam.